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Hastily concluding an "appropriate agreement" to send arms to Hanoi's Ho, Kosygin flew off in his official plane to Peking, where he was greeted at the airport by seven flower girls, eight antiaircraft guns, and Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. To top that, Party Boss Mao Tse-tung, who hadn't spoken to a Soviet leader since 1959, was waiting in the sprawling Congress Palace. During a 2½-hour secret session, Kosygin and Mao no doubt talked defense. The New China News Agency even published a photo of them that showed seriousness and mutual dislike...
...Carmen (she did not feel ready for the role). She spent her time instead singing avant-garde music at the Hollywood Bowl under the direction of Igor Stravinsky, dubbed in the singing voice for Dorothy Dandridge in the movie Carmen Jones, was a disembodied voice in Hollywood's Flower Drum Song...
...Sticky & Warm. The trap of just about all such flowers is a hollow tunnel formed by the flower's blossom that botanists call the caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...
...numerous species of traps use ingenious methods to cover the insects imprisoned in the blossom with the sticky pollen that they carry to the flower's close-at-hand female sex organ as they try to escape. After a night inside the Aaron's-rod flower, mosquitoes find themselves literally snowed under by pollen, while flies caught by the lily-like arms of another trap flower must wade through mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside...
Free, for a While. Once pollination is over, the insect is usually permitted to fly free, if only to be victimized by another flower. One erect and fleshy trap flower lets its prisoner fall out by merely drooping its blossom downward. The male part of the jack-in-the-pulpit allows mosquitoes to escape by opening a small hatch. But the mosquito had better be alert; its otherwise identical female part has no such escape hatch...