Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end some members of Carter's staff, taking a hint from the boss, were even suggesting that he need not be called Mr. President. He seemed to prefer "Mr. Carter" or simply "Sir." But not, apparently, just "Jimmy...
...argument, the studies of identical twins reared apart, was utterly worthless. Absence of appropriate controls meant that the correlations could just as easily be attributed to environmental as to hereditary influences. The only study of identical twins which claimed to have controlled for environmental factors, that of English psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, proved to be a classic scientific fraud. As early as 1973 Kamin pointed out that Burt's data had to be "cooked". (See L. Kamin: The Science and Politics of I.Q., 1974.) For example, in three articles, published over an eleven year period, with a 150 per cent...
...ever a Briton was born and bred for success, it was Eden. The third son of Sybil and Sir William Eden, a country gentleman and master of hounds, Anthony Eden had a perfect pedigree for membership in the British ruling class: Sandroyd Preparatory School, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he won first-class honors in Persian and Arabic and pulled a respectable oar. Before entering Oxford, young Anthony saw action in France with the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the first World War; at the age of 20 he became a brigade major...
...above all his capital. So far, Murdoch has been doing a lot of the editing, but this week he will shift much of it to his new editor, Edwin (Ted) Bolwell, 44, a native Australian who first broke into journalism on the Melbourne Herald under Rupert's father, Sir Keith Murdoch...
Died. Peter Finch, 60, who created crystalline portraits of middle-aged men on the edge of despair in such films as Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Pumpkin Eater and Network; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in England, Finch worked in Australia, where Sir Laurence Olivier spotted him acting in a lunchtime show at a glass factory. Finch was soon playing Shakespeare at the Old Vic. His mastery was evident in whatever parts he played, from Walt Disney roles to the sensitive homosexual in Sunday. Finch savored his life both off and on camera. "One hopes that...