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...remember, Buildings and Grounds began its well-publicized campaign to wipe out the rabid squirrels by scattering poisoned acorns around the elm trees. The deranged squirrels, they reasoned, would overlook the incongruity and bury the nuts for future use. Then, when the Spring thaws came, the animals would dig the acorns, eat them, and expire...
...World War II Desert Rats, does indeed set prices for the industry. Reason: almost all other African producers see the advantage of selling to the De Beers powerhouse rather than engaging in cutthroat competition. Even the Soviets recently chose Oppenheimer to market their Siberian gems. As for those who dig his diamonds out, Oppenheimer pays his unskilled African laborers better than most, but it still does not seem like much: an average 78? a day, plus free housing, food and medical care...
...novelist with the old know-how, all is not lost. The reader of this Tom-Swift-in-Hell story has the choice of a dozen characters with whom it should be a privilege to identify. There is this tycoon, an old Walter Huston type, rich enough to dig a two or three hundred million dollar fur-lined funk hole under his Connecticut Shangrila. There is his nice ginny wife. And (what larks in the ark in this subterranean Ararat) his mistress. A Jewish nuclear physicist clever enough to work the survival gear and brave enough to make like a space...
...Drew-McCormick-Harvard expedition at Shechem is the largest archaeological dig in the Holy Land and has become an important site for training graduate students and teachers in Palestinian archaeology...
...West Point standards, most of them were lean years. Army's great All-Americas, Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, graduated in 1947, and 37 players were expelled when a cribbing scandal rocked the campus in 1951. "We had very few talented football players." recalls Blaik. "We had to dig into our B squad to field a team, and our job was to teach what we had the best we could. Lombardi was a driver. Not all the boys liked him. but he brought out the best in each of them...