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While the AEC and the military are claiming their blocks of information, a ship manned by scientists from the University of Washington is gathering fish, plankton and other oceanic fauna and flora to check for radiation effects. Specimens will be sent to Seattle for further study. A team from the U.S. Public Health Service is standing by to treat and study any unfortunate humans who tangle with test radiation...
...NATION ). "Be sure," Fledgling Hostess Caroline Kennedy told Mother, "to show her Robin's grave." The beloved pet bird (a canary despite its name) had been laid to rest just a day before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said, "No" when she proffered a daffodil...
...when they heard that Hollywood was planning a movie of same, complete with stereophonic sound, Panavision 70, and Technicolor. The shudders probably reached earthquake proportions when the faithful learned that the Film to End All Films was going to star Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, and other Hollywood flora and fauna...
...temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone. Plants and insects capable of crossing moderate water gaps could have used Antarctica as a bridge between New Zealand and Australia on one side and South America on the other. Some of the flora and fauna may even have evolved in pleasant Antarctic valleys that are now covered by two miles...
Also, he makes clear that a great deal of sexual intercourse of various kinds has always been carried on in Paris, as he recites the squalid life, loves, and even more squalid conversation of the human fauna of Montparnasse: opulent and heavily gartered Tania; Van Norden (now reputedly a New York newspaperman) who loves a poxy and paranoid Russian cryptoprincess; the girls who sit around their brothel parlors scratching themselves "like chimpanzees"; the tortured expatriate Fillmore who cries out the tragicomedy of the Lost Generation: "Sure, I hate those puritanical buggers back home-I hate 'em with...