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...thing in the morning." His public career has given her several bad turns, especially when the Vice President got embroiled in his celebrated "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow last year: "My, that Khrushchev was so fierce! Looking at the newspaper pictures, I thought he was going to poke Richard in the nose. But Richard never flinched." How does she feel when Nixon's political foes take potshots at him? Looking ahead to the forthcoming presidential campaign, she testily said: "Certainly they aren't going to come up with something new in the way of digs...
...first time around. Some 1,200,000 students take an introductory course in biology every year, but barely 2% come away with enough interest to take a second. Many educators think they know why: high school biology is fossilized. Students perform perfunctory experiments to prove points already memorized, poke away at frogs and recite by rote an endless, largely meaningless list of Latin names, learning little of the processes by which life exists on earth and which have fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd of Stanford University: "The mere skeleton of science is presented...
...Stratford-upon-Avon, at the age of 80, is not only the oldest continuing Shakespeare stage, but also a shijne and an industry. A quarter-million tourists a year, 25,000 from the U.S., pour into this medieval town in the green-girt Cotswolds to poke curiously through Anne Hathaway's neighboring cottage and peer reverently at Shakespeare's crypt in Holy Trinity Church. The red brick Stratford Memo rial Theater receives 1,000,000 ticket requests annually, is forced to turn down four out of five. The lucky ducat holders this year will...
...admiring judge-and packed courtroom-that she had bowled over a few of the boys. But she staunchly denied that a popped button on her blouse had triggered the stampede. Purred Anita: she had all her buttons and only ran abreast of the crowd because "some people tried to poke their hands through the car window-for what purpose, I don't know...
...military significance is great, may solve the major problem of missile shots from submarines: determining the exact distance and direction from the sub to the target. Cruising underwater far off the beaten track and out of loran's range, a nuclear submarine will be able to poke a whip antenna above the surface, take a fix on the nearest Transit satellite, and blaze away with lethal accuracy...