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...mandarins are probably all sold out," although he seemed to have no intention of leaving. "If they had run out of mandarins they would have told us not to stand in line any longer," observed a wise babushka. "They're probably just unpacking a new crate...if there were none left, they would have told us." And so we stood there and waited. Fifteen minutes later, an employee emerged from behind the closed doors and told us that there were none left...
...With everything being eyeballed by responsible people," Perrot said, "we're rediscovering things in collections that had previously been overlooked." At the National Natural History Museum, researchers found nine whale skeletons that somehow were misplaced in the 1950s and a never-opened crate containing the bones of big game shot in Africa by Teddy Roosevelt. Although many items seem ridiculous or redundant, Perrot says that the Smithsonian wants them both for scientific research and as "testimony of the past being kept for the future...
...this hot, blue Sunday morning, on this pontoon in Hong Kong harbor, on a crate marked PRECISION EXPLOSIONS, LTD., the priest sits safely. He has just arrived from Haiphong with 28 others, who five weeks ago slipped aboard too small a junk and trusted themselves to the South China Sea. Behind him the junk bobs crazily in the harbor, giving an idea of how it must have rolled in open swells. His fellow refugees huddle together on the pontoon, staring straight ahead, as if posing for a formal family photograph, and sipping water from an orange plastic bucket passed from...
...tourist attraction near the southern Golan Heights, offered to pay up to $1,000 per alligator to further his own resettlement scheme. Joel Smith, who runs an alligator farm near Gainesville, Fla., packed 120 of the reptiles, from 1 ft. to 10 ft. long, into burlap-lined wooden crates and sent them off on an El Al jet. After arriving, one nosed its way out of its crate in a truck en route to the Golan Heights and fell onto the road, but was corralled by some intrepid journalists in the convoy...
...wedding were matched in ingenuity if not in splendor by the celebrations surrounding them. Angus Henry, 25, a freelance caterer, and Gwyn Jenkins, 25, an interior designer, set up hard by Buckingham Palace with a television, three cases of sparkling white wine, masses of duck pate, a crate of salmon sandwiches, French bread, orange juice and a large black umbrella. They threw a party right there for 50 friends, and on the wedding morning Angus changed into a morning suit. All along the wedding route, spectators wrapped themselves in flags and youths painted the Union Jack on their faces. Others...