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Environment. After they escaped from Yemen to freedom, Israeli physicians began to make startling discoveries about them. In most ghetto communities, Jews have shown amazing resistance to tuberculosis, but among the Yemenite Jews there was soon a raging epidemic. This showed that resistance was no genetic or ethnic trait but a product of environment. Though they had lived in hovels, the Yemenite Jews had breathed dry air, relatively clean and germfree. With little exposure to TB, they had developed no resistance...
After the election, coach John Yovicsin emphasized that Lenzner has progressed rapidly since last year. He praised the new captain's "love to play," which he termed "a good trait in any ball player," and he described Lenzner as a "mature player, who has just finished a fine year...
...come those of organization. Gone is the "parade of stars" which formerly masqueraded as lectures. Instead there are now blocs of integrated lectures covering single aspects of the course, for example the series of lectures the first month that Professor Gill gave on economic history. Another long-standing distinguishing trait of the course, its extensive use of teaching fellows, is also...
...daughter, 67, complained of severe drowsiness and episodes of sleep many times a day for at least 40 years. How she managed was a mystery because she had 16 children. She consistently fell asleep at movies, even those she particularly liked. Her eldest son, 47, at first denied the trait because he thought it was normal to fall asleep at family gatherings, in church or at meetings; eventually he admitted an occasion when he drove into a ditch three times on the way home because he got sleepy. Also he often stopped his car for a five-minute...
Self-interest, in La Rochefoucauld's view, was clearly the carrot that made men trot, as money was later singled out by Balzac, and sex by Freud. Yet, in obsessively concentrating on one human trait, as Author-Critic Louis Kronenberger points out in his new translation of the Maxims (Random House; $3.50), La Rochefoucauld narrowed his vision. Indeed, some of the maxims are strangely naive and platitudinous, suggesting once again that cynicism is sentimentality in reverse-and that, perhaps, the sheltered courtier could have learned from the crude common sense of the peasant. Yet at his best, as Kronenberger...