Word: teller
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Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr., 39, commander U.S.N., Apollo 12's skipper, is the son of a Philadelphia investment banker and a graduate of Princeton University who displays no trace of Main Line reserve. He is an inveterate joke teller, likes to whistle through the gap between his front teeth and listens for hours to country-and-Western music. At 5 ft. 64 in. he is the second shortest of the astronauts. A pilot since the age of 14, he is still fascinated with flying, particularly acrobatics (he was stunting in a jet over Florida only two days before...
...Boston's Planned Parenthood office is located on the corner of Berkeley and Boylston Streets, right across from Bonwit Teller. I parked where the sign said "Customer Parking Only" and walked across the street. The elevator operator stopped at the fourth floor without my asking him to. He was used to the traffic...
...Planned Parenthood is a middle-class organization; the idea that someone will do an abortion for you legally is a middle-class idea." A visit to the PP office confirms this comment. The PP building stands isolated in a middle to upper class world. Across the street is Bonwit-Teller, adjacent is Brooks Brothers, in the neighborhood are Lord and Taylor, Peck and Peck and other unlikely hang-outs for those women who would be trapped by the abortion laws...
While Hokanson would not give any idea of the identity of these students, the student body is forming its own opinions. Richard E. Teller, a second-year student, said of Hokanson. "I thing he talked to two military guys and each one said he had 50 friends to agree with him." John Gilster, a first-year student in the liberal Section J, said that Hokanson should realize "if you're at the Harvard Business School and can't read, you get what you deserve...
Confession humanizes and invalidates the image game they all played on the street, so that people can get close together. No matter whose tale is being told, all the players pantomime the story, react, peer, gasp or laugh, so the story teller seems still less alone...