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Only a handful of Parisians read this anemic little book when it first appeared in 1896. Few of them could have thought it likely that its author, a rather foppish and not very likable young social climber, would later devote the bulk of his adult life to composing one of...
Dr. Camargo is convinced, however, that the Amazon cannot thrive on rubber alone. Farmers must live during the seven years that their rubber plantations are growing to bearing age. He believes they must devote permanently at least 40% of their land to other crops. He has already found one other...
Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years...
By 1960, gay, bright-eyed officer's son Vladimir Turukhin hopes to be a designer in a brave new world powered by atomic energy and free at last of all the bad habits of capitalist society. Teresa Kleinerman wants to devote her whole life to medicine and have enough...
"The life of a literary man who has achieved success," observed Somerset Maugham in the Atlantic, "is not as a rule interesting . . . His profession obliges him to devote a certain number of hours a day to his work . . ."