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...form, physalia, is rarely more than eight inches across its mauve, iridescent, jellylike body, but it has scores of tentacles up to 50 ft. or even 100 ft. long. These tentacles are like strings of microscopic beads, containing tiny poison cells consisting of a hollow, coiled thread with a barb...
Critics cavil that not enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure...
...professor of animal drawing at the Paris zoological museum. Until his death in 1875, he maintained his own foundry. He filed down his casts to hair-fine detail, worked his own warm greenish-brown patina into their glittery pelts. After Barye's death, a wholesale Paris founder named Barbédienne began casting Barye's sculptures by droves with the help of a new reproducing machine that the founder claimed "did for sculpture what Gutenberg had long before done for the written thought." The machine triumphed: cheap copies of the work of les animaliers became as plentiful...
...took ten minutes. Surgeon Erwin Jennings, 38, put the king-sized needle between Fairman's fourth and fifth ribs, aimed for the right ventricle. Jennings knew when he had hit it, because electrical impulses from Fairman's heart were transmitted through the wire. A fishhook type of barb on the end of the wire set it in the heart muscle...
...cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right on the beam; others are wildly exaggerated. President Eisenhower shot a thinly veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that he, for one, was not buying a car because everyone knew that prices are too high. Drivers who have never peeked under the hoods of their cars are sure they know precisely what ails...