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...August, so that while one is actually entertained by watching three mules dive into a 6-ft. pool, still a part of the same mind retains its distance, goes off on a private reverie in which collapsing football players shaped like refrigerators, poisoned birds, butter cows and Judge Crater, too, disappear, and one is left with what is suddenly a happy mind, a relaxed and contemplative mind--best of all, an alone mind...
Think that nothing of importance ever happened in August? That's how much you know. The first execution by electrocution was performed in August 1890. Judge Crater disappeared in August, plumb vanished from the middle of Manhattan. Britain's Great Train Robbery was pulled on Aug. 8, 1963, and Trotsky was murdered on Aug. 20, 1940. The month is famous for violent acts. In August 1914 Germany got World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August...
...potpourri is far less predictable. At the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut one can buy a wooden handcrafted model of a ship ($10,000). Shoppers at Boston's Museum of Science store can take home a tiny piece of the moon, complete with a lunar map locating the crater from which the rock was taken. The single best-selling item in the Smithsonian stores is a $1.25 bar of freeze-dried ice cream, similar to the kind that passengers on the space shuttle eat. Houston's Museum of Fine Arts offers a Michael Graves-designed teakettle ($70). The Natural History...
They are not many, those persistently insoluble puzzles--the fates of Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart, Thomas Pynchon's unlisted phone number--but they add a dash of darkness to a world that generally appears to us in flat primary colors. Of them all, the identity of Deep Throat had been, for the past 33 years, the most tantalizing of those questions--in part because he placed himself at risk to bring down a corrupt government, in part because of the romantically noirish way he was portrayed in All the President's Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book...
...Ruiz may still be far from over. Says the University of Pisa's Barberi: "Other explosions are certain to take place. It may be that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...