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...President's Lincoln, Reagan protested: "Jerry, get off me. You're hurting my ribs. You really came down hard on top of me." The agent apologized and helped Reagan sit upright on the rear seat. The car was speeding down Connecticut Avenue toward the White House. Said Parr later: "I ran my hands over his body, under his arms, his back." He detected no wound. The limousine was less than 15 seconds away from the Hilton when Reagan said again that his ribs hurt. "He complained of having some problems with his breathing," said Parr. "He was getting an ashen...
With seconds remaining in the contest, the all-stars moved the club side back to its one-yard line before Harvard's Rickie Kief pounced on an errant Beacon Hill pass to tie the score at ten. A fortunate bounce off the right upright on Harvard's Charles W.A. Bott's conversion attempt provided the collegians with the margin of victory...
...cold, bare shoulders on the traditional, covered-up royal evening dress." Added Rook: "Her Gone With the Wind dress is high, young fashion. It takes courage, and a lot more, to uphold it. And sitting through an evening in that tight, boned bodice takes guts, because, unless you stay upright and regal, the bones stick like fish knives into your midriff. All Di must learn to watch, which the TV cameras noticed, is the ounce or two of puppy fat which boned bodices tuck under a girl's arms. But you can't have too much...
...vertical? Johanson speculates that it may all have had to do with the family. Upright, females' hands were free to care for infants; males could carry food. The roots of pair bonding were set; the old pattern of annual random coupling was obsolete. This amalgam of nature and nurture brought an endless mating season, happier hominids and, of course, more children-the Darwinian key to survival. Lucy and Co. may have been smaller and weaker than many of the animals they encountered, but when it came to reproducing, they were champions. That, suggest the authors, is why they...
...pianist, Pressler cannot travel with his instrument and so is more at the mercy of circumstance. He must perform on whatever piano happens to be in the hall when he arrives: in the past, these have included an out-of-tune upright and a piano with no pedals. When not performing with the trio. Pressler goes home to Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard...