Word: hocus-pocus
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...Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought out in 1963 and currently a hot favorite at $8,000 among sailors, with 147 sold...
Double Six. Sukarno believes in some of the hocus-pocus himself. He always hides on his birthday, the sixth of June, because it is an unlucky number ("double six"). This year obviously was the worst of all. His birthday was 6/6/66. Long before the dreaded double double six, however, Sukarno's luck had run out. He made his biggest mistake in February. He fired Nasution as Defense Minister and brought in two proCommunists to take his place. In the confusion that followed, the army had to come up with a new leader to fight the Bung. It chose Suharto...
...divorce laws theoretically shun the idea of mutual consent because it offends religious tradition and raises the specter of too many marriages being dissolved by whim or passing despair. In practice, however, 90% of U.S. divorces actually involve mutual consent that is disguised by legal hocus-pocus or outright perjury. Reason: the whole U.S. approach begins with a disastrous premise. Instead of recognizing that both parties are almost always partly to blame, U.S. law demands verified proof of "fault" by one partner-and only one. The insistence seems almost sadistic: the "innocent" party must prove his or her mate "guilty...
...Little Hocus-Pocus." The self-styled "Wizard of Clubs," Paul Hahn, 46, is the world's acknowledged expert at "devious ways of hitting the ball." A teaching pro since he was 18, Hahn took a fling at the P.G.A. tournament circuit after World War II, quit after two years ("I wasn't making any money"), and went back to telling duffers the difference between a mashie and a niblick. To keep himself amused, he tried "a little hocuspocus" on the practice tee, and club members started showing up to applaud such antics as hitting two balls simultaneously...
...best of plays; and certainly the Loeb Drama Center is capable of providing it in immense amounts. But CRIMSON reviewers must also realize that the process of making a play "come alive," as Mr. Gordon says Sophocles' works "honorably" do, is absolutely dependent upon a certain amount of hocus-pocus. Sets are gimmicks; so are theatrical lights; so are costumes and made-up faces. And they have a certain amount of validity: they began to be used even before theatre moved out of the cathedral. The problem is not whether or not gimmicks should be employed in the theatre...