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Looking more flora than fauna herself, Mrs. David Bruce, wife of the U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks with North Viet Nam, popped across the Channel to London's Chelsea Flower Show to accept the new Evangeline Bruce Rose, named in her honor. Appropriately, for the wife of a diplomat, the Evangeline Bruce is a delicate compromise of pink and cream...
Greetings, Bio Labs' flora and fauna...
...returned 29 times over the next half-century. He crisscrossed the polar region by dog sled, snowmobile and airplane, and sailed into the ice aboard his sturdy schooner Bowdoin. All the while, he made vast contributions to the world's knowledge of Eskimos, glacial movements, polar flora and fauna, and the geography of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. He was 80 before he finally retired, and even then he lost none of his zest for adventure into the unknown. Three years ago, Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. asked the admiral whether he might be available for a moon trip: "Damn right...
...rarity augments the preciousness of a jewel, how astronomically inestimable is the value of the flora and fauna on this globe. Will we then continue to give evidence of the sanctity with which we regard life by driving other species into extinction? Having read in your magazine that blue whales are being decimated to make butter [July 13]. I feel like laughing to hysteria and beyond...
Then sheep and goats were easy to recognize, local fauna; good meant Giles the shoemaker taking care of the village ninny, evil Count ffoulkes who in his tall donjon Indulged in sinister eccentricities...