Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, following the tape, "but it is actually highly structured." The listener has difficulty in orienting himself because there is no tempo in the conventional sense, he explained; rather, there are six different speed zones which are determined by a Fibonacci series, in which each element is the sum of the two proceeding...
...more objectionable members of the Lampoon sendoff should be chastised, but more because it is unkind to call an overweight child "fatty" because he overeats to compensate for emotional problems. Fifteen thousand able-bodied students putting in an eight-hour day could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform and educate hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that these people would rather take a Saturday bus ride to Washington--often with their dates, and march about with signs all day, ought to elicit more pity tha scorn from all those...
...killers. Even as the man hunt was underway, new terror struck nearby. Kidnapers seized Harold Eder, 61, one of Colombia's richest and most influential industrialists, from his ranch near Cali, beheaded Eder's police bodyguard, demanded 2,000,000 pesos (about $145,000) ransom, the highest sum in the sordid history of Colombian kidnaping...
...dryly witty strip that avoids the archness and sentimentality of most comics that deal with children. With the barely perceptible wriggle of a line, he can convey a pathos and tenderness beyond the reach of most of his colleagues. The dots at either end of Charlie's mouth sum up six years of concentrated worry. So subtle is Schulz's drawing that some of his best panels are wordless -as when the Peanuts are gathered to observe somberly the first snowflake of winter...
When Steve and Norman Rosenblatt bought Salt Lake City's suburban weekly Holladay Neighbor for $15,000 last year, the sum of their newspaper experience was Norman's three years on the Yale Daily News. Friends argued that their purchase was questionable for other reasons. Not only were they leaving good paying jobs with a prosperous mining-and construction-equipment business, but they were buying a paper that was losing money and readers as a result of its steady diet of back-fence gossip and trivia...