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...lone service to the crown was as Governor-General of the Bahamas during World War II. Afterward, he privately applied for a job as roving ambassador to the U.S., whose ways he clearly finds congenial. He once remarked that he envied his old friend Winston Churchill for his half-quotient of American blood. He is now working on a biography of George III, who reigned during the American Revolution -a "deplorable event" that, the duke says, the book is really about...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. This candid account of his early life and career by old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell wittily explores and explains his preoccupation with the irrational and mystical quotient in human mathematics...
Clay, it is true, won't lower Texas's publicized hate quotient by moving to Houston, as thirty seconds of lip-baring during the pre-round-one rule recitation amply displayed. But he never whimpered about Terrell's consistent fouling. Any humiliation he administered was both fully merited and infinitely more legitimate than the challenger's behavior. And if the champ did denigrate his beaten opponent, it was only after Terrell had alibied his defeat with a story of having an eye rubbed on the ropes, a claim that seemed totally unfounded...
...Nevada has the highest suicide rate (22.5) of any state, and the West Coast the highest of any region. Nevada's high rate presumably results from the state's low population outside of Reno and Las Vegas, where gambling, drinking and divorce create a high-crisis quotient. The West Coast's rate is probably high because of the large number of people who move there after retirement and bring with them the increased suicide rale that goes with advancing years. Another factor is that the West Coast attracts the ambitious and restless who are inclined to react...
...psych is the commuter carefully tallying his "compatibility quotient" in a newspaper quiz ("Do you resist asking directions in a strange town?"). It is the applicant for a new job checking True or False on a personality test ("I have strange and peculiar thoughts." "I have never seen a vision"). Pop-psych is found in heavy-breathing advice to the lovelorn, warning girls to beware of their father fixations. It is in the domestic-advice columns telling the anxious mothers of bed-wetters that the children are resenting their "free-flowing" permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have...