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...cautious pipe-organ wasps are repelled by the faint odor of ozone and other gases that rise from radioactive mud. More fascinating is the possibility that among the wasps of Oak Ridge, which have been exposed to radioactive wastes for a longer period than any others, the pipe-organ daub ers may have evolved a special sense that detects radioactivity and enables them to build nests that will not be lethal to their sensitive young...
Within ten minutes, five guardsmen were fatally wounded. "We had no chance of fighting back," said one of the survivors. "They shot at us at point-blank range, without mercy." The raiders tossed their five victims off the moving train, stopped it long enough to daub F.A.L.N. slogans on the coaches, then backtracked a single coach to a rendezvous point. From there, they escaped in waiting cars...
...Common Market, but he can try: "The lady from Bexhill still bangs away at me about a mass importation of French courtesans. But I think there must be more to the Common Mar ket than that." "Electrified" by reading in a Sunday women's page that a daub of lipstick artfully placed between the breasts was advised as the latest cosmetic lure, the Earl dashed off an imaginary nightclub scene. HE: "I say, old girl, feeling all right?" SHE: "Absolutely dreamy. Why?" HE: "Well, that rash of yours. Could be measles, you know, or nettle rash. Perhaps that lobster...
...clocks moving again and causes Ninian's downfall is a hopelessly immature, nearly illiterate 18-year-old whom he hires as his secretary. Unlike Lolita's Humbert Humbert, Ninian manages to convince himself that he is interested in the girl's mind: peering at a "modern" daub through myopic eyes, she had once by wildest mischance correctly identified a Dufy. In his passion for the girl, Ninian abandons his London art gallery, gets himself thrown into prison and eventually flees with his beloved to Spain...
Decisions were: Greitzer lost 3-0, Hal Pouser (130 pound class) lost 8-0, George Daub (137 pound class) won 4-0, Steven Astor (157 pound class) lost 5-2, Schnitz won 8-5, and Red Grant (unlimited class...