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Cicero is a compact community, just 5.5 sq. mi. Its squat houses were mostly built between 1910 and 1940, when thousands of East European immigrants swarmed in to take factory jobs. Today Cicero's tidy yellow-brick houses are owned mainly by the thrifty children and grandchildren of thrifty Poles, Czechs Lithuanians and Yugoslavs...
...prickly relationship began to change almost as soon as Nakasone landed at Seoul's Kimpo Airport. For the first time since 1945, the Japanese Rising Sun flag was hoisted alongside South Korea's white, red, blue and black emblem atop the city's squat Capitol Building. Nakasone pledged that his country would grant $4 billion in preferential aid to South Korea and declared that "my visit may mark the beginning of a new and vital stage in our relationship." Replied Chun: "Your visit is a historic, indeed monumental, milestone in our relations." From Washington's point...
...NIRO PLAYS a squat Harvard graduate named Cecil. He lumbers about on the screen without true motivations. He misses a comic timing in his actions consequently making his performance staff and unresponsive. His performance--as well as Clayburgh's--makes one appreciate the more recent acting performances, but does little for The Wedding Party...
...resulting movements were crude and jerky. Moreover, extending the program so that Nan can turn, sit, squat or climb steps will pose enormous difficulties. At present, the $200,000 system can only direct one foot to move in front of the other. Before it can be put to practical use, Petrofsky's 150-lb. device must be streamlined and miniaturized. "It's a mass of wires right now," says Wright State Technician Harry Heaton. "But it will eventually be a small microprocessor capable of being implanted pacemaker-style." Petrofsky says his system might be ready for commercialization within...
...British Explorer John Ross arrived in Greenland and gave Arctic nomads their first good look at a qallunaaq, a "big eyebrows." In turn, Ross and his seamen gazed on squat Asians wearing bearskin pants. Outsiders called them Eskimos, a derivation from the derogatory Cree Indian word meaning "eaters of raw meat." They simply called themselves Inuit, human beings, a distinction born not of racial arrogance, but of fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs...