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...would like to work in small groups, he can confer with advanced students on special projects. Most public high school teachers do not have time for work with especially talented students, thus Jerry Bell '58 is able to assist chemistry teachers at Newton High and Judith Silk '59 can work with a Somerville High teachers setting up chemistry experiments...
...Pope's shoulders the pallium, a white wool band symbolizing his authority as Bishop of Rome, and the sacristan performed the grim ritual of tasting the wine to be used, as reminder of the days when Popes often died by poison. At the conclusion of the Mass a silk purse containing 25 ancient coins was presented to the Pontiff, traditional payment for "a Mass well done...
...proposal to set up gambling facilities in St. Mark's Square. Once he aimed a shaft of wit at the scantily clad tourists who swarm the city in the summertime: "People need not come to Italy in furs or woollens. They can come dressed in that modern American silk, fresh and soft, which is a veritable refrigerator at low cost. Italy, on the other hand, is not on the equator, and even there, by the way, lions wear their coats, and crocodiles are lined with their most precious hides...
Antrhopologists are delighted with his ablity to summon up detailed accounts of Amarakaire customs; a zoologist stopped by to peer in astonishment at Pink Owls. Says Tobias, now 37 and working in a Manhattan silk screen company to piece out his income: "I was never afraid. In fact, I was delighted to be by myself in a world so completely remvoed from civilization. I accepted the jungle without reservation, and in return it accepted...
...clean paint brushes and look after the remarkable Churchill wardrobe. In the uniform department, it was one of the most splendid seen in Europe since the fall of the Bastille. For the rest. Churchill hated to get new clothes. A comfort lover down to his underclothes (silk), he felt most comfortable in shabby suits, and his best hat was 33 years...