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...have been an unequivocal yes. After all, Psychologists Allen and Beatrice Gardner of the University of Nevada had managed in the late 1960s to teach the chimp Washoe to use 132 signs; the precocious animal was even credited with having invented a phrase of her own, water bird for swan. About the same time, David Premack, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, using plastic symbols of different shapes and colors to represent words, taught his prize pupil, Sarah, some 130 words and reported that she had also mastered some phrases. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center...
...NOTEBOOK: In addition to Allen, another pivotal Harvard basketball personality ended his career last night. Dave Scheper, WHRB play-by-play man by winter and football center by fall, did his 78 rpm swan song on 93.5 FM. Final Ivy Basketball Standings Penn 11-3 Princeton 11-3 Brown 8-6 Yale 8-6 Harvard 6-8 Columbia 6-8 Cornell 3-11 Dartmouth 3-11 Penn to play Princeton Tuesday night to determine NCAA berth
...wines are being made by comparatively small estates that have started up in the past two decades. They are owned by engineers and airline pilots, big businessmen and corporations. Most of the bottles shipped by such wineries as Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Chappellet, Santa Ynez, Burgess, Joseph Swan, Sanford & Benedict, J. Lohr, Keenan, Heitz and Chateau St. Jean are instant sellouts-often at higher prices than comparable French, Italian or German vintages. A tasting...
...their historic tour of China. "It was fascinating to see musicians there attempt to recover after the Gang of Four's efforts to dismantle Chinese culture," she says. "Instruments are few, scores even fewer, but there is no dearth of enthusiasm. In Shanghai, we watched a rehearsal of Swan Lake in a room so cold we could see our breath. The dancers, however, took no notice of the chill. They were simply pleased to be performing...
...PHILIP SWAN graduated from Harvard in 1977 and was born in England. Since then he has been living in Italy studying Italian history and art and teaching English in a private school...