Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Current attempts to stamp out Colombia's drugs still seem to be mere stopgaps, however, ineffectual against the tide of American demand for, and tolerance of, marijuana and cocaine. Says Bensinger: "Our efforts are so uphill that it is more than a challenge. The public attitude must change about drugs so the profitability for traffickers will decrease." On this point, Colombian President Turbay agrees: "Colombians are not corrupting Americans. You are corrupting us. If you abandon illegal drugs, the traffic will disappear...
...odds do not seem good for McGraw-Hill's management. In tender offers over the past ten years, the target company has been acquired 85% of the time either by the initial aggressor or by another bidder. Even Lipton, who with his pale, bland face and dark shapeless suits looks like an ambitious bank clerk, admits: "Cash offers are rarely defeated." Two years ago, he fended off Congoleum Corp.'s cash offer for Universal Leaf Tobacco. Says a Wall Street merger and acquisition specialist: "Marty tied Congoleum up for over eight months in the courts...
Mostly, however, the students just seem eager to get a U.S. degree. Of the Japanese, John O. Heise, director of the University of Michigan's International Center, observes: "They view their American education as an exportable commodity. They come, they buy it, and they take it away." And American students often gain valuable international contacts. Take the University of Texas, for instance, where many of the 2,000 foreign students are studying petroleum engineering. When it sponsored an alumni conference on energy a couple of years ago, one 1947 grad came a long way back: Sheik Abdullah Tariki...
John Merrick (1863-90) was so monstrously deformed that beside him Caliban might seem shapely. His head had the circumference of a normal man's waist, and the bone structure occluded one eye and twisted his mouth into a slobbering aperture. A spongy cauliflower-shaped mass on the back of his head and other body growths gave off an odious suppuration. His hip was deformed, and he could scarcely walk. Only his left arm and his genitals were unmarred. So grotesque was Merrick's body, in fact, that he was banned from appearing in sideshows, for a time...
Despite these failings, The Corn Is Green at times is carried by the sheer force of the Hepburn-Saynor tutoring sessions. Saynor makes Morgan's transition from scruffy youth to literate gentleman seem fully credible. Hepburn, as always, is a handsome paragon of moral rectitude and common sense. When this actress commands the screen, who could dare turn away...