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...C.M.E. bad all right, but it ain't nothin' like it was two years ago." Knight Collins emphasized his judgment with the tap of fist against cupped hands, and we walked...
Point of View. Yale's 17th president fits no educator's conventional mold. In college, he rose to become chairman of the Daily News, but on Tap Day, when Yale juniors are selected for secret societies, a delegation from Skull & Bones searched for Brewster in vain, finally found him firmly seated on a basement toilet, from which perspective he declined membership. At the start of World War II, when Yale's President...
Telephone calls to the outer world are technically possible but unrewarding. So many of Castro's minions tap into the line that the connection at the far end often becomes inaudible. Pre-arranged codes do not help. "You know that hardware I was telling you about?" said Daniel Harker on such a call. "Well, it's shifting." He was cut off in midsentence, and his report on troop movements did not get through. Once, after trying vainly to get half a dozen numbers in the U.S., Harker's predecessor bellowed in exasperation: "You mean to say that...
...achieve such happy results, Producers William Ritman and Bernard Gersten signed up dancers for seven different programs designed to exhibit the breadth of American dance-modern, ethnic and ballet. They presented some of the nation's star dancers: New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Villella, Tap Dancer Paul Draper and the ethnic dancers of the Donald McKayle company. Even Ruth St. Denis, the 85-year-old queen of American dance, was persuaded to make a rare appearance...
Most important factor of all is the development of artificial sea water. Real ocean water is risky because of the tiny organisms it contains, which die and foul it under aquarium conditions. To overcome this difficulty, several commercial formulas have been developed which can be dissolved in tap water with excellent results...