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...police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never know how he's going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times he's incredibly gentle. Or, sometimes, when I say to him, 'Norman, how are you?' he'll say, 'Cut the crap; you don't really mean that...
...most valuable experiences I had in college. It has contributed a great deal to many of my activities since. . . In the four years with the Crew, I learned: first, to get along with all kinds of guys; second, to plan in a reasonably orderly fashion; and third, to react with some sense, I trust, as emergencies upset my plans or the unexpected occurred...
...magnets on its tines. When the tines vibrate, the magnets poke into tiny coils, generating a very small pulse of electric current that goes to a transistor and triggers it so as to permit a somewhat larger current to flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this...
...case "must speak guardedly of death as if it is years away; he must administer the Sacrament with no indication that this is probably the last time for confession, absolution, and real peace with God; he must see the mind that fades from narcotics is unable to perceive or react to any assurance about a fuller life." The only answer to the problem,Pasta Brooks feels, is in long-range preparation of Christians for their time of death. We must plant the seeds of understanding of death . . . so that our people will see it for what it is and will...
...well with the same low-work system that succeeded in school, a system peculiarly adapted to Exeter's unique teaching and testing system. When Harvard gives them C's instead of B's, and they are not taken as a superior species despite their conspicuous sophistication, they tend to react by doubting the worth of Harvard's system, pointing out its weaknesses and defects, and thus refuting its rejection of their performance. Substituting independent intellectual activity and creativity, both subjectively defined, they become mere academic hangers-on, and dissatisfaction frequently terminates in departure...