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...Switzerland's once pure waters crops up everywhere. Health authorities in the canton of Aargau recently forbade a circus to allow its elephants to drink from the river Aar; the water was too polluted even for pachyderms, the doctors said. Lake Geneva, whose transparent water and white chalk bottom once moved poets to lyricism, is becoming clouded and dull. Industrial, agricultural and household chemicals-not to mention raw human wastes-drain uninterruptedly into the lake, where they fertilize enormous "blooms" of rust-colored algae. When these plants die, they sink and decompose, depleting oxygen supplies to such an extent...
...They were not, for example, looking for the girl in the grey flannel suit. They were, apparently, looking for you and me and the girl down the hall, the one who runs a vacuum cleaner every Sunday morning at 6 a. m. In high school the corridors smell of chalk dust, and lunch costs 45c with milk, and who the hell are they looking for? I, you see, knew all the Presidents once, but Margic knew all the Presidents and could run the track faster than anyone else. And you, I understand, knew the atomic numbers of every single element...
People's Champ. Breaking from the No. 7 post position, Cañonero surprised the chalk players by taking the lead at the clubhouse turn and holding it for more than a mile. Avila, who rode high in the irons trying to conserve his mount, said later: "I just couldn't hold him back." Then rounding the final turn, the challengers came on. Pass Catcher, a 30-to-l shot, broke through and battled Jim French to the wire to win by three-fourths of a length. A tired Cañonero faded to fourth behind Bold Reason...
...real slam-banger," Ullrich said. "The most exciting race I've ever seen." "We rowed an extremely good race," Parker added. "I'd like to chalk the whole thing off," Nash concluded. "If you find out what happened to my crew, let me know...
With his limited stage experience, Chamberlain is not without flaws. He tends to pose his arms and hands as if they were petrified objects of sculpture. He sometimes moves as if conscious of chalk-mark locations on the stage, rather than with an easy unconcerned grace. But these faults can be amended. The important point is that he is, in the language of sport, a natural. With further discipline, and firm resolve, he can become one of the lords of the stage. T.E Kalem