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...Then W.R.M., as friends called him, retired deeper into the shade and kept six secretaries busy sorting the 2,000 requests for funds he received weekly. Toward the end, Nuffield began to complain that "they like me for my money instead of myself," sometimes told his friends that "the bin is beginning to run a bit empty." But all indications last week were that it is still nicely full. The Nuffield Foundation, which handled Billy Morris' major donations, alone holds Morris stock worth $100 million...
...Principal Person? Kops goes barefoot about London, later is seen carrying a big wooden crucifix he has carved himself. It seems like a hopeless case. Kops, as he says himself, "cannot cope with the human race." Inevitably the crackup comes. First it is "greengage" (marijuana), then "the loony-bin" at Belmont...
...NEEDLE -IN -THE -HAYSTACK" FINDER was devised to eliminate dangerous bits of baling wire in cattle feed. Davis engineers wrap a coil of copper wire around a standard pneumatic conveyor pipe that carries feed from chopper to storage bin. The wire is energized to set up a magnetic field inside the pipe. When a piece of iron or steel disturbs the field, an electrical pulse triggers a device that closes off the pipe's supply of feed and opens a side slot. Out flies the baling wire, along with a small amount...
When the outcome was announced outside Zanzibar's radio station, Afro-Shirazis broke into tears. But the situation was pleasing enough to Zanzibar's Arab Sultan, Seyyid Jamshid bin Abdulla, 31, a speedboat-loving playboy who came to the throne after his father's death three weeks ago. During the election campaign, the Afro-Shirazis hinted that if the African party won, his reign might be short. The worried Seyyid Jamshid was said to be ready to abdicate and earn a living running a motorboat service for tourists. With his allies of the Arab Nationalist Party still...
...rarely escaped the Borsch Belt and Hadassah-club audiences that wanted a strictly Kosher diet of Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Since then, she has made four albums of international folk songs, but record stores are still likely to keep her in the Jewish bin; when she packed Town Hall for her first New York concert, a friend who had followed her Catskill career asked, "What did you do-give away free matzoth?" Her latest album is a return to the Yiddish repertoire, and she sings the songs with relish and ease...