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...president of the San Francisco Examiner-and spends his days consulting with Patty's attorneys. A quiet and thoughtful man, he had been troubled even before the kidnaping by some of the social injustices decried by the S.L.A. He did not complain when the S.L.A. demanded that he dig deeply into his $2 million net worth to distribute food to the poor. But Randolph, too, is said to have grown bitter since her return-bitter at the chaos and venality surrounding the food giveaway, at the Government's insistence that his daughter is more criminal than victim...
Going to Manhattan's Roundabout Theater in the decade of its existence has always had the anticipatory excitement of going on an archaeological dig. You can usually count on a dramatic find, something that no other theater group is likely to be doing. In recent seasons, the Roundabout's venturesome founders, Gene Feist and Michael Fried, have offered playgoers a delectable comedy of sexual theatrics, Molnar's The Play's the Thing; Barrie's salute to the canny primacy of the female, What Every Woman Knows; and a world première of James Joyce...
...take a onetime national hero, J. Edgar Hoover [Dec. 22], and after he is dead, you dig him up and bury him in a different grave...
...platypus has adapted to its environment through a minor evolution of specializations. Its powerful claws allow it to dig its burrow; its thick fur allows it to maintain an aquatic existence; its musculature allows it to scramble over land, paddle through water, and close its eyes while underwater; and its extremely sensitive bill allows it to find food below the surface. Temple-Smith says, "When we were rowing about at night, the sound of the paddles would attract the animals...
...plural.) But Temple-Smith says he does not know how much more work he will do on platypuses; "the field work is not easy to do." In almost all of the cases of people trying to keep the creature in captivity, the platypuses have died. Just why platypuses dig burrows is not known. Just how the platypus finds its food is not understood. People have never even seen the platypus copulate...