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CARLETON STOVER Bath...
...over British Guiana demanded some of this free labor for their own ditches. Allsopp encouraged fishermen to net the harmless beasts gently (despite their 8-ft. length, manatees are easily bruised or drowned) in the jungle rivers, and he rigged a laboratory truck with a sort of canvas bath to carry them to the ditches. He now has 31 at work, happily chewing water weeds throughout the colony, and 65 more have been ordered from the fishermen. Inquiries about manatees as ditch cleaners have come from Thailand, Ceylon, Malaya and other weed-bothered tropical countries...
...days of your prosperity you would doubtless have made the conventional rounds, London, Stratford, Winchester, Bath, Windsor, walking on a carpet of your own dollars. Today, when every cent must pay its way, new glories await you." In inexpensive Staffordshire, visit "Walsall, one of the few guidebook towns with absolutely nothing under 'Features of Interest'" or "nearby Smethwick, with its locally popular Victoria Public Park (no charge...
...from the factory at prices far below Stateside and gasoline is pumped into the tank at 14? a gallon. Vacation? If bored with the local 18-hole golf course (family membership: $40 a year), try a pleasant few days skiing at Garmisch or Berchtesgaden, where a private room-and-bath is priced at $1.25 a night. Instruction and equipment for nearly any sport costs, as a military brochure puts it, "next to nothing." Sick? The 350-bed Wiesbaden U.S.A.F. hospital sends no bills to any patients-except for maternity care, which costs...
Gerald Durrell once awakened in pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...