Word: wizardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Experiment was developed by Don Herbert, 49, producer and star of the children's science program Mr. Wizard...
...once honorable profession of wizardry, which has declined in prestige ever since Merlin succumbed to the Lady of the Lake, may have been permanently discredited some 14 centuries later by the combination of television and Robert M. Shelton Jr. Though impeccably accredited as Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, Shelton, 37, a semiliterate, ferret-faced Alabaman, failed so completely last year to cast a spell on either the TV audience or the House Un-American Activities Com mittee that he was widely tuned out by the former and charged by the latter with contempt of Congress. Specifically...
...Bayonne high school math teacher, Axelrod is fluent in seven languages, holds degrees in mathematics and biology. He reveres the late General Motors Wizard Alfred P. Sloan in the way that most naturalists regard Charles Darwin. At a pet-business convention in Manhattan last week, Axelrod showed off fish food that would have intrigued Darwin. This was Tubifex Worms-ordinary sewer-variety worms spiked with a tasty, Axelrod-discovered fish-blood extract, and dry-frozen. Axelrod, always confident, expects that the new product will capture most of the fish-food market...
Orcs & Ringwraiths. A fairytale for adults blown up to epic proportions, The Lord of the Rings tells how Frodo becomes heir to a magic ring that would, in the hands of Sauron the Dark Lord, give him domination over Middle-earth. A clever old wizard called Gandalf the Grey persuades Frodo to destroy the ring by carrying it to Sauron's domain of Mordor and then dropping it into the impenetrable Cracks of Doom. On his long journey, Frodo is aided by a variety of elves and dwarves, set upon by horrid, yellow-toothed Orcs, nine Ringwraiths riding dark...
...Only one light for TIME on its rowing-gizmo story [May 20], which failed to mention that the gizmo was not used at the E.A.R.C. sprints. Using a Wizard-equipped shell, Penn beat both Princeton and Yale earlier this season. As for Harvard, well, lightning may strike yet! Instead of "back to the drawing board" for McGinn, the Worcester results suggest that it's back to the lights for Penn...