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...Leopard, directed by Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. Mather House dining hall, 8, 10, March...
...also inspired some awful jokes (sample: a WPA worker sued the Government when the shovel he was leaning on broke). Still it gave eating money in hard times to some Americans who later became famous, including Actors Orson Welles and Burt Lancaster and Artists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Oh yes, and a fellow named Richard Nixon earned 350 an hour from the National Youth Administration, a division of the WPA, for doing research in the Duke University law library...
While most successful trainers work for privately owned stables. Whittingham runs a public operation catering to such diverse horse owners as Florsheim Shoe Heiress Mary Jones and Composer Burt Bacharach. Says Bacharach: "When I got into this game I learned one thing in a hurry: Charlie knows how to wait. He's patient while others push too hard." Known as a man who "trains the owners," Whittingham says: "Owners have a lot of money invested in these horses, so you can expect them to want to have a say in what goes...
...Burt, C. The genetic determination of differences in intelligence: A study of monozygotic twins reared together and apart. British Journal of Psychology...
...fact of the matter is that there has been no dispute, at least among scholars who study the subject, about the substantial genetic component in the distribution of I.Q. scores in any population for which the relevant data have been collected. The main facts were already noted by Cyril Burt in 1910, although the precision of the estimates of sources of variance has improved greatly since then. My article in the Atlantic merely stated the scholarly concensus, with some representative findings. I have yet to hear of any significantly contrary evidence...