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...years ago, today face another issue of great moment: whether to designate the state's official insect as the praying mantis, which the state's house of delegates has championed, or as the swallowtail butterfly, which the state senate has boosted. The question came to the fore last fall, when the fifth-and sixth-graders at the Arlington, Va., Long Branch Elementary School did some research on both the butterfly and the mantis and found the mantis, which has a reputation for ferocity because the female eats the male after mating, to be more socially useful. The youngsters...
Virgin Queen. Forman was an abysmally credulous soul. "If I sneeze," he wrote, "once at the left nostril after sunset, it means an unknown person is coming; if twice at the right nostril be fore sunrise, it means a friend coming speedily for physic, or some sick body...
Smokers' resistance might be a force to reckon with if Congress were ever to pass into law a prohibition, like a bill be fore a House committee, sponsored by Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, that would forbid smoking in most waiting and boarding areas, and restrict it in military bases and federal buildings. As the Spokane Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn...
...truth was that no one had a certain answer. But in the evenings when it was time for brandy and cigars, any person attuned to national politics had to admit to a budding excitement over the prospects that be fore the new year was out, the capital might be shaken more than it had been in several decades...
...bloodless "pocket rebellion" by the air force began during the week be fore Christmas, when Brigadier General Héctor Luis Fautario, the air force commander, arrived at one of Buenos Aires' airports to fly to Córdoba. Fautario, an unpopular general unswervingly loyal to President Perón, was detained by high-ranking fellow officers, who thereupon declared a rebellion. Military leaders, apparently sharing the general dislike of Fautario, quickly acceded to one of the rebels' demands and dismissed him. But Fautario's successor, Brigadier General Orlando Ramon Agosti, was unsympathetic to the rebels...