Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thumb to Nose. Winning, in all water and weather, is the only thing the Cal-40 was designed for. Most ocean racers are at best compromises, partly designed for speed and partly for family cruising. The Cal-40s are all business: short on finery, heavy on sail and with a light (15,500 Ibs.) hull that thumbs its nose at the intricate rites of rating-the official formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
Gourdfuls of Beer. Odinga, touring the countryside in his black Mercedes, tried to win the voters with promises of free land, free education and jobs for everybody. He also worked the stale vein of antiwhite chauvinism. "The country is under the thumb of the Europeans," he charged. "Kenyatta is told what to do by the Americans. The whites should all be kicked out. You see them walking along, smoking their cigarettes and not looking anyone in the face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well...
Sinister Green Thumb. At 45, Amália has been the queen of fado for more than 20 years. But she is a vagabond queen, rationing her performances at home to tour the world. In Lisbon, variety-show comics crack that Portugal has everything that the rest of the world has-except Amália. "The Portuguese are jealous lovers," says Amália. "They say that I drink, that I am a spy, that I work for the secret police, that I sing only for ministers." Actually, her most sinister possession is a green thumb, with which she tends...
...mark of Cain is on the century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression...