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...head of the whole nasty slave racket is a Caucasian pervert named Amafi (Frank Finlay), whose line of chatter runs to things like "Luck can run out even for you, my black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...
...earlier flights, Space Rookie Weitz said: "As a new boy hearing horror stories from the old hands, I was deliriously happy and surprised at the [toilet's] operation." But that facility, too, has shortcomings. Whenever an astronaut used it, the blowers and other gear made such a racket that his buddies in the neighboring sleeping compartment would invariably be jolted awake...
...department has a monopoly on quirks in the honors-thesis racket. In History, a graduate student in the Department says, there was speculation that one thesis might be rejected because its author had failed to divide her bibliography into primary and secondary sources. The thesis was ultimately accepted. "Technically, the Department could refuse to accept a thesis when it is handed in," John Womack Jr. '59, head of the Department's Board of Examiners, said last week. All of the History theses were accepted this year, but Womack said that next year, any thesis that comes in late will...
...handshake becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of an ailment that has long been familiar to doctors and athletes but is now becoming epidemic in America: tennis elbow...
Tennis elbow is apparently set off by the repeated, jarring impact of the ball on the racket. The shock is transmitted to the arm, where it raises havoc-for reasons that doctors, despite long experience with tennis-elbow victims, still do not fully understand. Most of the pain seems to be caused by inflammation of the ligaments that join the two bones of the forearm-the radius and ulna-to the two spurs, or epicondyles, on the end of the humerus, or upper arm bone (see diagram...