Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When the Virgin Islands installation is complete. Dr. Lilly and his helpers will spend long hours playing with the amiable dolphins and trying to converse with them. The Navy's interest in the project is in basic research; it wants to know everything possible about the sea. including the ways that sea creatures communicate. "After all," says Dr. Sid Caller of the Office of Naval Research, "submarines and frogmen are but poor replicas, hydrodynamically speaking, of what a dolphin does naturally." For instance, by swinging their heads from side to side, and uttering ultrasonic boops, dolphins can "look" through...
...gained considerable impetus as Rayburn acquired three ranches in Colorado and a bankrupt vacation resort in British Columbia known as Malibu Beach. The prospect of spending a summer week or more at one of these layouts for a nominal fee of $35 a week did wonders to stimulate the interest of potential Young Lifers...
...Times. Church leaders are under close supervision by officials of the Soviet Government's Council for Religious Affairs. "These are full-blooded Marxists, of course," said Visser 't Hooft. "But some of these atheist supervisors have developed a real liking for their job and show a deep interest in church affairs and history. After all, there may be found in England and Sweden and elsewhere government functionaries in charge of church affairs who are agnostics as well...
...case in question was hardly likely to involve the public interest. Last February, probing a shortage in its books, a Detroit architectural engineering firm sued a former partner for an accounting, asked Federal District Judge Theodore Levin to suppress the record in order to spare embarrassment to those directly involved. Levin did, holding that the court has the "inherent right" to suppress any case. After the shortage-nearly $1,000,000-was publicly revealed with the arrest of the firm's former head bookkeeper (TIME, Dec. 21), Detroit papers decided to make an issue of the suppression...
...jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est." Se-cundus: "Ego quoque possem, si meum proprium dictionarium scripsissem."* But the fiction sometimes has its excitement, e.g., a recent story entitled Cadaver Absens (The Missing Corpse). Although many prospective advertisers (books, crayons, even liquor) have expressed interest, Warsley has held to a no-advertising policy; he thinks that ads might lower the magazine's tone. His annual gross from subscriptions is about...