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With the rest of the languages, Townsend's linguists did not always have the luck to find a Spanish-speaking interpreter. But their approach was always the same: gain the confidence of the Indians by living with them and sharing their food (including such exotic dishes as monkey stew and roast tapir). Once a team had learned a language, it set about publishing a simple reading primer...
...under Sewell Avery's iron-fisted rule at Montgomery Ward, one at least had the name for the job: John Edward Struggles, 39, who rose to personnel vice president two years ago. But last week Struggles also gave up the struggle, became the 32nd vice president to leave Monkey Ward since Avery took over in 1931. Struggle's new job: special assistant in the Commerce Department...
...83rd Congress, Dwight Eisenhower and his Cabinet took a hard look at it and decided to fight it. Secretary Dulles and other Eisenhower officials last April rode up to Capitol Hill to appear before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Crux of their arguments: this is no time to throw a monkey wrench into the country's foreign-relations machinery. There is no need for safeguards against such treaties as the Human Rights Covenant, said Dulles, because the Administration does "not intend to become a party to any such covenant"-or to other treaties outside the "proper field" of international relations...
...pleasure as synonymous. Dinah is an apostle of self-expression, always dressing and undressing her mind to suit the latest intellectual fashion, from Picasso to Kierkegaard. "On visits and at her Bohemian parties, she makes an impression on Rickie. Pretty soon, Rickie's business engagements are mostly monkey business. Torn between his obligations to Madeleine and his two young sons, and the emotional release he feels with Dinah, Rickie's conscience and his stomach both begin hurting...
...Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...