Word: talled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe you didn't know, and perhaps you don't care, but if you were to ask, the White House could tell you that Jimmy Carter's favorite color is blue. The President of the U.S. is 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weighs 155 Ibs., has a 39-in. chest and a 33-in. waist. His favorite spectator sport is stock car races. His favorite poet is Dylan Thomas. His favorite books are James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. His favorite car is still...
...tall, gray-haired man in rimless glasses standing by the Pleasant Valley bench smiles happily. He is Hugo Verbruggen, M.D., Ph.D., fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, a distinguished doctor who acts as team physician to the Bears because his son once Clayed football with them. Dr. Verbruggen sees the game of football from a slightly different perspective. "It rained a few days ago," he remarks. "The field has dried out enough for good footing, but the ground is still nice and soft. You don't get as many injuries...
...around this "lugubrious ball." But even a man of such laser eye as Mencken confessed that after damning politicians uphill and downdale for years, a certain faith in the process kept re-emerging and he looked to politicians "to be able, diligent, candid, and even honest." That is a tall order, but one suspects that we will all be at it again in the next couple of months...
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA--In the evenings, Pretoria looks a great deal like Washington, D.C. A few tall buildings in the center of the city house South Africa's civil service, Pretoria's major industry. The Voortrekker Monument an enormous memorial to the Afrikaaners who walked from the coast into South Africa's heartland in the 1830s, stands over Pretoria just as the Washington monument watches over Washington. Around the city, white residential areas look just like Washington's suburbs: neat houses with well-tended gardens look out over beautifully laid-out streets lined with graceful jacaranda trees...
...tall new apartment building stands on a ridge just outside Pretoria, overlooking the main route the blacks take into the city early each morning, before work starts. I am told it houses policemen and their families. South African whites are on the alert these days. If any trouble starts, the police will be able to move right in, with tear gas machines designed especially for South African crowds, and, if that fails to disperse "them," automatic weapons...