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Perched on a sloping site across from the main campus, it looks like a giant poker-hand of five concrete slabs, fanning down the hill. After six years of planning and construction, the University of California at Berkeley last week proudly opened its new $4.8 million University Art Museum with all the ritual speeches, plus an exhibition drawn mostly from California collections and modestly entitled "Excellence...
...through a transom, found a key and located the records," Jackson reports. (It was a bad trip: Nixon discovered that he was no longer one of the top three students in his class.) In the Navy, at the Green Island airstrip in the Solomons, Nixon set himself to learning poker so that he could get into the almost nightly high-stakes games. Once he mastered the game, "I never saw him lose," one Navy buddy says. "He might win $40 or $50 every night." Another remembers: "He was the finest poker player I ever played against. I once...
Hickel pointed out that the proposed line would carry hot oil over frozen soil. Unless designed with extreme care, he insisted, it would act like a hot poker on a cake of ice. After thawing the permafrost, the line might sag into the slush and finally break, spilling oil that could do great harm because it would last for years. Moreover, the line's route would cross earthquake zones. Since each mile of pipe would have a capacity of 100,000 barrels of crude, any break in the line could have disastrous consequences...
...laugh when they laugh.He was singing as he came into the box. "Oh. the horses have no tails, have no tails. Oh. the horses have no tails, have no tails. "He stopped singing and began grinning. Then he stopped grinning and began talking. He had just finished a poker game and was planning to shoot crap after the races...
...Moses Gunn sees it, all of this is a great deal more than a spontaneous eruption of black playwriting talent. He feels it was always there: "What we have done is simply put a poker iron up people's behinds and have said, 'We write too.' It is said of blacks that they don't have enough training to be playwrights. But the theater is not an area that has much to do with education. It has to do with craft. Blacks have had the craft, but if a man with a potential has enough barriers...