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...midday rush begins. "Four plaice! . . . Two turbot! ... I got six steaks! . . . Four plaice, please, ducks! . . . Three cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
Using a powerful experimental radar at South Truro near the tip of Cape Cod, the scientists soon finished off one well-established notion-that migrating birds follow coastlines. The all-seeing electronic eye showed that most birds cross the coast without changing direction. The few that are deflected have been so easy to spot as they fly along the beach that human bird watchers erroneously decided that coastline following was standard bird procedure. The Truro radar sometimes showed conspicuous angels moving out to sea at a 40-knot speed. These proved to be dense flocks of sandpipers, plovers, and other...
...crisis were more ordinary diplomatic, political, ceremonial, social, and even parental problems. Leaving the J.C.S. conference on Berlin, Kennedy changed into white tie and tails to preside at a state dinner for Peru's President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (see THE HEMISPHERE). As Hurricane Esther swept toward Cape Cod, he put a call through to his father in Hyannisport, asked if Daughter Caroline and Son John ought to be moved from the summer house to higher ground. At 5 a.m. on Thursday, the President's children, along with six of their cousins, were awakened and driven 18 miles...
Write & Rewrite. Next day, hurrying to get away for his regular weekend on Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
...slimy skin, may well rank as the ugliest creature in animaldom. Sailors hate the toadfish because it croaks so loudly that it confuses sonar signals; fishermen despise it because it is as inedible as the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Piled up on beaches from Cape Cod to Florida, it smells like rotten whale. Yet even mudcolored toadfish can be heroes...