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Last week, after a Boston newspaper disclosed Walter's secret, he shyly insisted that it was "no great feat." Harvard didn't think it was so great either. Apparently annoyed at having the sheepskin pulled over their eyes, Harvard authorities notified him that he would not be recommended for a law degree this year, "pending an investigation." M.I.T. administrators had learned Walter's secret last fall, but had permitted him to continue, even though one official said that he would never have been enrolled if authorities had known of his Harvard enrollment. "It just would have been...
Yevtushenko has been applauded in the West as a free anarchic spirit against Stalinism. But sometimes, when he dreams of "Hindus in machine-gun wagons/ And Peruvians in helmets and sheepskin jerkins," or when he visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please...
...oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies. Today, several young doctors have rediscovered and redesigned a discarded system for floating bedsores away...
...first-rate intellectual detective story and a fascinating photographic lecture in connoisseurship. In 1942 New York Art Dealer Piero Tozzi acquired a dirt-encrusted Renaissance statue of a boy seated on a rock. A sheepskin over one shoulder and a shell in one hand identify the youth as St. John the Baptist, and while Tozzi patiently cleaned the fragile ancient marble inch by inch, using only castile soap and a toothbrush, he began to think it might be a lost statue that Michelangelo is known to have carved in 1496. The possibility has aroused the cautious enthusiasm of a number...
...buildings, the institution is a school for sabotage founded by Indonesian President Sukarno as part of his "confrontation" with the Malaysian Federation. At Batam Tech, students get a month's intensive training in such subjects as judo and jellied explosives; on graduation day they receive, instead of a sheepskin, a time bomb or a grenade or a burp gun. Then they set sail to infiltrate the Malaysian territory of Singapore, where this year they have set off 20-odd bombs, killing two persons and injuring seven...