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...first drummer we had was a spade who didn't get into country music, especially my song 'Family Bible.' He said that if we did that song once more he'd walk off stage. I grabbed the mike and said, 'Family Bible it is.' He left...
...Israel to help celebrate German Culture Week, West German Novelist Glinter Grass maintained his reputation for spade-calling by attacking the militant Jewish Defense League and the Betar organization for trying to disrupt the week's lectures, theatrical performances and concerts. This "irrational militancy" would be a serious problem for Israel, said Grass, if it were to be directed against the Arabs in Israel "with whom you are going to have to live." As for the idea that it is still too soon for the Israelis to get to know the Germans, he declared: "I don't want...
...cards are dealt one at a time, disregarding the order of the cards within the suits, the player encounters only one of four possibilities on each draw (a heart, diamond, spade or club); clearly, if DNA's code worked this way, there would not be enough choices to encode 20 amino acids. If the cards are dealt in pairs, the number of combinations increases to 16 (since each card may combine with its own kind or one of three other suits). But such a two-unit system also would be inadequate. So Gamow reasoned that DNA's four bases...
...thousands a month. "About 1% of it is unfavorable," she claims, though the Gallup poll rates opinions of her as 33% unfavorable to 43% favorable. A recent morning's sampling of letters included encomiums from a woman in New Jersey ("I think you are absolutely great. You call a spade a spade") and a Tennessee man who asked for a picture of her so that "when things go wrong, I will look at it and it will cheer me up." A man in Ohio urged her to start a national women's organization "for the American cause." She is flattered...
...ideas. In words that Marighella might have used as a model, Lenin urged revolutionaries "to arm themselves with anything they can lay hands on (a rifle, a gun, a bomb, a knife, a stick, a kerosene-drenched rag to set fire with, a rope or a rope ladder, a spade to build barricades, barbed wire, nails against cavalry, etc.). To start training for war immediately, by means of practical operations: killing a spy, blowing up a police station, robbing a bank to provide funds for the uprising, etc." Concluded Lenin: "Let every detachment train for action-be it only...