Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia, was out on bail there last January when a hooded holdup man collected $181 at the Topside Tavern, fired a shot in the ceiling. In March, a hooded gunman got $109 at Hagerty's Tavern; minutes later police collared Neal near by. At his feet were a bag containing $109 and a loaded pistol that police say fired the shot at the Topside Tavern...
William Holden plays a hard-drinking hack screenwriter, given exactly 48 hours to hatch a movie script. He is assisted by Audrey Hepburn, the loveliest little stenographer a hack ever had, who reports to his Paris hotel suite with an overnight bag full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George...
...vestibule of the inner ear are two tough capsules called the utricle (from the Latin for a little womb) and the saccule (a little bag). These contain a gelatinous material in which are suspended crystals of a chalky substance composed mainly of calcium carbonate, no bigger than grains of fine sand. In the space age, physiologists are learning much more about these otoliths (ear stones), which respond to forces of gravity or acceleration. Now otolith mechanisms are known to have an im portant function. The semicircular canals tell the brain when a man's position or posture is changing...
Timid Tapirs. Only 4½ hours and $77 from Miami by plane, democratic, relatively peaceful (last revolution: 1938) Costa Rica is a zoologist's and hunters dream. No one ever heard of bag limits, game wardens don't exist, and critters are everywhere. Last month, just ten miles outside-the mountain-circled capital city of San Jose, a farmer' plugged a wild black cat that measured 6½ ft. from nose to tail...
...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...