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Since then, tourists and art students have flocked into the Lascaux Cave, bringing with them damp air which threatened the existence of what they came to see. Taking alarm, French authorities closed the cave during the winter months while they installed air conditioning of the sort used on submarines, will celebrate the reopening next week...
...damp midday gloom of London's worst fog in seven years, prostitutes were dimly visible as they patrolled their familiar stations in Soho, Piccadilly and Paddington. The chilling smog also seeped through tightly closed windows into the House of Commons, where Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler was opening the second reading of the Street Offences Bill, aimed at clearing those same girls off the sidewalks of London...
...Arboretum's dry plants are found--damp but safe--in a secret passageway in Massachusetts Hall. "I just don't understand how they got there," President Pusey says. William Bentinck-Smith remarks, "Somebody ratted." Dean Bundy flees to the Dominican Republic and Sherman Adams comes out of retirement to replace him. Attorney General McCormack turns the case over to the Department of Justice which stops extradition proceedings when it learns Bundy's erstwhile political affiliations. John F. Kennedy has a ten-hour conversation with Mao Tse-Tung and makes his 160th non-political speech of the year...
Howard Moss has obviously written The Folding Green to be a witty and cogent commentary in the mannered, whimsical style that Poets' Theatre comedies frequently affect. It is thickly scattered throughout with jokes and clever remarks--many of which were greeted by the opening night audience with a justifiably damp silence...
British scientists are also collecting antlers, especially from the Scottish Isles, whose damp green hills are apt to be relatively rich in fallout material dumped on them by Scotland's heavy rains. In this week's Nature two scientists from Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology report on an antler taken on the Island of Islay in 1957. It proved to have 126 micromicrocuries of strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp...