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...secondhand materials, the cost of which he recorded in precise Yankee style: $28.12½, including a 10? latch and a penny piece of chalk. Thus he began his celebrated two-year sojourn in happy isolation. Last week. 116 years later, Thoreau would have been able to find his clump of woods easily enough, but not necessarily the solitude to permit him to drive life into a corner. The snort and belch of automobiles punctuate the old serenity of Walden. and the yelps of children, followed by the cries of their parents, have all but enveloped the summer-soft days. Across...
...plastic "tote tray" from a central rack. The kids hustle about all day in a bewildering variety of changes. Even the furniture arrangement is unpredictable. "They might be seated in rows, circles, squares or even isosceles triangles," says one teacher. "Or that day they might just want to clump around my desk...
...beginning, said Urey. the explosion of a supernova some 5 billion years ago splattered the space around it with cooling cosmic dust. As particles of matter caromed into each other and stuck, moon-sized bodies were formed. These, too, collided with each other and grew into planets. Somehow, the clump of material that men now know as the moon escaped collision and floated free, only to be captured ages later by the younger earth's gravitational field. Far out in space, said Urey, other planets may be forming in much the same manner around other suns...
...Clark Rockefeller found the stairwell of the century-old Albany Executive Mansion engulfed in flames, pounded on the door of Governor Nelson Rockefeller's adjoining bedroom, and together they crawled through the second-floor window onto a porch roof. Just as Rocky got set to leap for a clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom to retrieve six Picasso drawings, a Van Gogh sketch...
...ever. The U.S. last week gave the royal Laotian army four T-6 trainers, a lumbering plane that is nonetheless the hottest thing Laotian pilots can handle. They flew them north into the Communist-held countryside, wildly firing .30-cal. machine guns and 5-in. rockets toward any clump of trees where they thought the enemy might be hiding. Soviet commentators instantly broke into shrill cries of alarm, declared it was just like "the grim days of the 1930s, when fascist birds of prey barbarously bombed Spanish towns...