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Built-in Disposal. Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push-the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies...
During its first five years, it hurriedly acquired for its cases in Boylston Hall collections of the Swiss lake-dweller artifacts and Danish archaeological specimens, superb examples which twenty years later could not have been purchased at any price. The Museum even in those days organized expeditions in North America, exploring and exploiting many of the richest mounds in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the quest for more and more specimens...
...Very low. Half of what a city dweller can earn...
Upon hearing the edict against using Greycroft's dining quarters, one 'Cliffe-dweller exclaimed, "This is terrible. Now I'll have to go to the Harvard Cafeteria for breakfast." Her worries will be shortlived, however, since the kitchen reopens at 7 a.m. this morning...
...good half of the tales in A Medicine for Melancholy are inner-directed rather than outer-space bound. The Headpiece is a typical Bradbury skin-prickler. Andrew Lemon is a middle-aged apartment dweller, thoroughly undistinguished except for the hole in his head, the result of a hammer blow from his exwife. Lemon is hopelessly in love with a pert young thing down the hall, but she is cool to him, and he blames his strange deformity. One day he knocks at her door proudly decked in a toupee. Tonelessly, the girl says, "I can still see the hole...