Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams was pinpointed by two investigators of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight. They turned up in Boston a month ago, took time out to follow up a tip to look at the books of the stately Sheraton Plaza Hotel. They hit pay dirt: on a dozen occasions between 1955 and May 1958, members of the Adams family stayed at the Sheraton Plaza and racked up total board and food tabs of nearly $2,000. The bills, the investigators found, were paid in full by a millionaire Boston textile manufacturer and real estate man named Bernard Goldfine...
Despite their success, most penny-whistlers still find the going rough. Whistle Virtuoso Fred Maphisa thinks up his tunes while driving a cab; Spokes ("King of the Pennywhistlers") Mashiyani used to make his living as a domestic servant. But young "Special" Mabaso, who has just turned out a new hit called Serope Sa Ngwanyana (Girls' Thighs), is optimistic. Says he: "We are professionals now. From now on we are not going to play so much in the streets...
James Rhyne Killian Jr., the President's Special assistant for science. . . .Sc.D...
...spirit of true repentance for our own
mistreatment of the Jew we should take seriously our responsibility for
winning them to Christ, and . . . should be prepared to surround the
converted Jew with the community of Christian love."
Traveling with the Innocents Abroad is actually a highly unscrubbed first draft of Twain's The Innocents Abroad, the most popular travel book ever written by an American. As special correspondent for San Francisco's Daily Alta California, the 31-year-old Twain was dispatched on "The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion" of 1867. The excursionists were a sobersided group of about 75, "chiefly composed of rusty old bachelors," bound first for Europe and then the Holy Land. Twain's task was to write dispatches on the pilgrims' progress. This is the first time "those wretched...