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...Nantucketers, who are suspicious in principle of off-islanders, the whole idea smacked of progressive education-and higher school costs. When Off-Islander Charles H. Minnich, who has been resident superintendent of schools only since 1962, proposed similar ideas this year, the already restive opposition went out for his scalp. Rallying around the popular local high school principal, Mrs. Mary P. Walker, who is satisfied with the status quo, conservatives won a three-member majority on the five-member school board. By a 3-2 vote at their first meeting in March, the board canceled Minnich's contract...
Asseyev is in "satisfactory condition," according to the Cambridge City Hospital, but is still on the danger list. He suffered a ruptured spleen and a severe scalp cut during his fall when he struck the limb of a tree. The doctor who removed the spleen in an operation Friday reported that Asseyev "has a very strong will to live...
...trading tribes -the Winnebagos, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Sioux-were in perpetual hock to him, and they had a habit of going into battle with medals bearing his likeness strung about their necks. Astor's puffy face, in fact, was thought to be a more powerful talisman than a scalp or even a medicine bonnet...
...words sounded for all the world like the stage directions for an old-fashioned vaudeville demonstration of hypnosis: "You are going to relax, and the feeling of relaxation will start in your scalp. When you feel this, one of your fingers will feel like lifting. That will be your 'Yes' finger. Then your eyes will feel relaxed, your mouth and lips will feel soft, and your 'Yes' finger will lift." The speaker works downward in a sort of hyp tease, through jaw, neck and shoulders, arms, chest, and abdomen, thighs, legs and feet. "When you feel...
...Cohn is nothing if not a windmilling fighter-and no sooner had the indictment been handed down than he began swinging out on all sides. The charges against him, he cried, were "conceived by intimidation, threat and blackmail, a vendetta to get my scalp...