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...Society has claimed that Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition, made libelous statements in the March, 1959, issue of McCall's magazine. In that issue, Stare attacked some of the charges made in one of five "open letters" the Society had written to President Pusey about standards of nutritional research at the University...
...Stare stated yesterday, "I think those people know by now I'm not worried about them. . . . It will be somewhat embarrassing to them if the suit ever comes...
...Wall and the evil things happening behind it have an irresistible attraction for West Berliners, who flock along its length by the thousands to stare across for hours on end. Some are just curious; others hope for a glimpse of some now separated brother, cousin or lover. Intricate signals are worked out to arrange these rendezvous of stares and waves; indeed, a portrait of two typical Berliners today might well show each gazing at the other through binoculars, for this is the common sight along the entire wall of Communism...
...interested only in a passing grade. In his determination to give Cascadia his very best, Levin tries to light a divine fire in them, to teach them "what's for sale in a commercial society, and what had better not be." He gets back only a blank, uncomprehending stare. To his fellow teachers, Levin seeks to communicate his passionate belief that the liberal arts should have an equal place in the curriculum alongside animal husbandry and road engineering. They back away as if fearing infection...
During the run of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917, a man in his mid-50s kept reappearing in the audience night after night-always buying two tickets, one for himself, one for his hat-to stare at a blonde chorine named Marion Davies. He already had a wife, five sons, a gold mine, seven magazines, ten newspapers, more than a million acres of land-and now he wanted the chorine. Getting her was as easy for William Randolph Hearst as hailing a taxicab. Remarkably, she remained his mistress for 34 years...