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Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch...
...watch TV tell it, the U.S. teacher has long been a simple sap like "Mr. Peepers." Now comes a turnabout. He is "Mr. Novak," hero of a new weekly series about a dedicated young high school English teacher. In the resounding words of the producer, Teacher Novak "wages war five days a week against ignorance, intolerance, cruelty and injustice. For this, the board of education pays him $5,842 and gets more than its money's worth...
Another columnist unburdening himself about Goldwater was Walter Lippmann-who just happened to be making a sedate sort of turnabout. Only a few weeks before (TIME, Sept. 6), Lippmann, the high priest of liberal Democratic pundits, had practically excommunicated Goldwater from the G.O.P. as one whose "philosophy is radically opposed to the central traditions of the Republican Party...
This remarkable turnabout in U.S. income patterns is largely the result of the postwar growth of large corporations and their intense competition for talent. Increasingly, highly trained students getting out of college find more of what they want-in terms of interest, challenge and salary-in the corporation, pass up any opportunities to strike out on their...
...said Dr. Daniels, Chang complained of pains in his chest, though Eng still felt well. Chang's doctor ordered the twins to stay indoors. But in their turn-and-turnabout living pattern, it was time for them to move from Chang's house in White Plains, N.C., to Eng's. They made the switch in a buggy in the damp January cold of the North Carolina mountains. Next night, Eng awoke with a feeling of unease and called in one of his sons. Said the boy: "Uncle Chang is dead." Eng replied: "Then I am going also...