Word: camel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your stories on Ronald Reagan give one a new insight on the man and particularly his mode of recharging. No one need ever worry about the inner calm of a man who cherishes such a retreat for himself. But why did Mayor Koch appear in PEOPLE astride the camel with Reagan's living-room...
...minutes before. Now someone stretches up and says something to Hale, high in his red-painted auctioneer's pulpit, and Hale looks unsure whether to giggle or break down crying, and he clicks on the microphone and says: "Folks, man here bought himself a 7-ft. 6-in. camel a couple of hours ago, and he's only got a 7-ft. horse trailer to put it in, so what we're gonna do right now ..." It was promptly resold...
...shine, however, with the entrance of the harp's sustained chords. The composer glutted the music with fat harmonies and lines, which Jarvi wrings from the orchestra, at a cost; a wobbly beat in the strings during the difficult passages before the timpani and tambourines enter, playing rhythms camel riders know well...
...Koch, mayor of New York. Koch was in Israel and in Egypt on an unofficial nine-day tour to see the ancient sights and create a few new ones. Outside the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Giza, he gamely wrapped himself in Arab robes and called for "the toughest camel." Cracked Edward of Arabia as he mounted the snorting beast: "I want to look like Henry Kissinger looked." But the majestic surroundings also left Hizzoner humbled: "Will the ruins of New York City have the same grandeur 1,000 years from now?" Even the Big Apple's chief polisher...
Examining camel remains recovered from local abattoirs, the scientists found the answer. Camel noses are filled with many tiny winding passageways, moistened with glandular secretions. As the camel loses water, the secretions dry and form an absorbent crust. This crust soaks up moisture coming from the lungs. During inhalation, the stored moisture is carried back into the lungs. In short, the camel saves water not in its hump but in the folds of its prodigious shnoz, which cover an area of roughly 1,100 sq. cm, vs. only 12 sq. cm for the average human...