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...keeping native California snails in check. Why import a foreign variety? In reply, Clausen points to the fact that California snails have generally stuck to wild areas, and presumably could not be coaxed into orchards. More over, says Clausen, he does not fear that the Gonaxis will devour the Helix and turn to other food. Long before that happens, the law of supply and demand will take over, freezing the population of both hunter and hunted at a safe level...
Novelist Paul Bowles likes to paralyze his characters in the opening pages and then devour them at leisure. The paralytic agents are 20th century emptiness and despair. The devouring usually takes place in North Africa, a nomads' land where U.S. Novelist Bowles has roved for more than two decades. Like his highly praised The Sheltering Sky and Let It Come Down, the latest Bowles novel is less about the clash of cultures than about the de cline of both West and East...
...Republicans say they will not become submerged in a Forum that has an official title or that tends to unite the different clubs. They fear that a super-organization will devour individual groups, and they decline to take a stand on an issue, like the Bricker Amendment, which divides the Republican Party nationally. The Young Republicans say that they "serve two masters" already--the local membership and the National Party--and they do not want to add a third...
...primary international objective is to destroy a neighboring state with which they refuse to establish peace," and his government asked the U.S. to restore the "balance of power" by selling arms to Israel. Cried Eban: "Can Israel wait like a rabbit for the snake to get big enough to devour...
...Icebox Will Do. In preserving the blood's white cells (twice as big as the red, 7,000 to a cu. mm.), researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...