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...spite of its present success, the company never forgets the catastrophe that hit the birds in 1942. A warm current called El Niño* crept down the coast of Peru. It drove the anchovetas away and starved millions of guano birds. Next time, the company intends to have a chain of walled-off peninsulas all the way to Chile. Then the birds can fly south by easy hops, and escape death-dealing...
Occupational Hazard. In Wauwatosa, Wis., surprised by police as he crept about in the offices of the State Washed Sand and Gravel Co., James Freeman, 19, was arrested on a burglary charge, taken out to a squad car where he fainted when reinforcements arrived...
Yokoyama began his volcanic life in turbulence. He was born in a bamboo grove, where his mother had crept to escape the swinging swordsmen of feuding samurai factions at the dawn of the Meiji Era. Sent to a Tokyo art school, Yokoyama soon proved his talents for 1) outstanding brushwork and 2) consuming sake. Advised by a professor to drink either one sho (3.8 pints) of sake a day or nothing, Yokoyama took to the bottle in earnest. Today he begins his day by downing a prebreakfast glass full of his favorite sake brand, "Inebriate Soul", during the rest...
...morning, the talk was chiefly of what the final communiqué would say. The foreign ministers met and deadlocked. As the time for the afternoon summit meeting approached, dark storm clouds crept in from the north over the Jura Mountains. Bulganin rattled off a version of the old Russian proposal for a world disarmament conference, which the Russians first made two months ago. It was so familiar that some delegates thought they could even understand the Russian words...
...Abdias told Jose about a night in 1949. Abdias had robbed a drunken sugar planter of 700 cruzeiros and was wisely trying to get out of the vicinity. On a muddy path through a sugar field, a stealthy figure had crept up behind Abdias, struck him over the head and robbed him. When he awoke the next day, caked with blood and mud, Abdias had crept away, not daring to report the assault because of his own crime...