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...feet. Shunning sleek exterior finishes, Rudolph opted for corduroy-like concrete walls. To make them even rougher, he had workmen rough up the edges with claw hammers. The building is both massive and full of surprises. "All sorts of conceits," says Rudolph, puckishly pointing out fishbones, seashells and coral in the concrete, "are buried in the walls...
...time is now, although the count and keeper of an 18th century chateau is rehearsing his costumed entourage in an 18th century comedy by Marivaux. The bulk of his cast is a very aristocratic, very French menage a quatre: the count (Keith Mitchell) and his mistress, the countess (Coral Browne) and her lover. Another actor is the count's longtime friend (Alan Badel), a professional womanizer sardonically named Hero. According to the code of this set, the only liaison dangereuse is with a person outside one's own class...
Salt-caked, coral-scraped, sunburned and exhausted, Roberts, a 33-year-old chiropractor, returned to his home in Pensacola, Fla., thoroughly pleased with his fishing trip. The plastic bags in his car held some 25 reef fish, captured alive with his Plexiglas "slurp gun," which is one of the latest pieces of equipment used in that fast-growing and prestigious U.S. hobby: collecting saltwater fish...
...reason is the popularity of scuba diving; hunting and collecting fish as Chiropractor Roberts does with his slurp gun is much more rewarding than spearing them. Another major factor has been the jet age, which has brought the coral reefs of Fiji and other faraway sources of exotic fish within a few hours of the U.S. This shorter travel time, plus new sleep drugs which make fish inert, thus reducing their oxygen intake by two-thirds, means that more fish can be transported in less water-and hence sold more cheaply...
...Slowest Horse. Marine collectors must content themselves with fewer-and smaller-fish in bigger tanks. Tiny fresh-water tropicals, accustomed to crowded living in a brackish backwater pool, obviously need far less tank space than the denizens of vast coral reefs that are flushed by two tides every...