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...Fortas--New Deal liberal whiz kid, chief counsel in the Gideon case, drafter of what amounted to a Juvenile Bill of Rights while an associate Supreme Court justice--owned a chauffeur-driven two-tone Rolls Royce. It is a harsh fact to remember...
...other kids can begin to learn that this kid who up to now had to use communication simply to make functional needs come and go and can't really do a lot of digressive calculations, other kids can learn for the first time that 'he's kind of a whiz at baseball statistics, we never knew that before. He's got a good sense of humor, we never knew that before,'" Brightman says...
...first visit, we ordered the Cheese Dog, with all the fixings. The wiener itself was sumptuous; its exquisite aroma and flavor were not over-whelmed by the condiments. However, the "cheese" turned out to be a greasy, Cheez-Whiz like mass that had been plopped in globs onto the unfortunate frankfurter...
...their source is often forgotten. There seems to be a Taco Bell on every corner, Corona beer in every bar. The First Lady's preferred fashion designer, Adolfo, is Cuban. And out of the crossover into the mainstream come some curious hybrids: bolero jackets with blue jeans, Jalapeno Cheez Whiz, Brie enchiladas and, in Santa Fe, even an adobe McDonald...
...1970s he was best known as a spokesman for Soviet dissidents, especially Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel. But Anatoli Shcharansky (he later adopted his great-grandfather's Hebrew first name and simplified the English spelling of his surname) was also a mathematician, a computer scientist and a chess whiz who had devised a computer program for playing the end game. When he was arrested in 1977, he sought to use the same logic to defeat his KGB opponents, who were preparing to try him as an anti-Soviet agitator...