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Less than an inch of rain falls annually, which explains why houses are built without gutters or rain-spouts. But damp overcast mornings with mist are frequent, and sulphur fumes occasionally erupt from the nearby ocean bed. Taking advantage of the omnipresent sand, Walvis Baymen have built an 18-hole golf course with predictably spectacular bunkers. Perhaps the world's only drive-in movie atop a sand dune is a popular spot. Favorite sports include dune-buggy races and sand skiing at speeds of 40 m.p.h. down the precipitous 600-ft. dunes. The principal hazards for golfers, moviegoers, racers...
...leaky one-man tent; existing on a crude, monotonous diet; dealing with reluctant porters; avoiding the snarling village mastiffs; living with the long silences and terse exchanges on the trail; and the flora, fauna and overwhelming vistas of peaks and valleys at the top of the world. There are frequent outcroppings of autobiography as Matthiessen, scion of a wealthy New York family, graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale and a founder in the 1950s of the Paris Review, writes with painful openness of his wife's death from cancer the year before: "It is not hard to live with...
Flea markets thrive on nostalgia. Explains Susan Pressly, a New York City nurse and a frequent visitor to New Jersey's Lambertville Antique Flea Market: "You can go there and touch something from your childhood." When Shirley Temple ruled moviedom in the '30s, small blue drinking glasses bearing her pixie face were packed in countless Wheaties boxes. The glasses now fetch $9 each at MacSonny's flea market in North Reading, Mass. Anything old sells: wedding dresses, shoes, and, for collectors, Coca-Cola signs, beer cans and comic books. Says Bill McCrenice, an antique-store owner...
...really knows whether Bevis was making phony claims or was a victim of the furious scientific competition between rival fertility researchers. In any case, the Bevis case sharply increased public concern and brought vociferous right-to-life advocates into the fray. They equated the fertilization experiments?and the frequent destruction of apparently live embryos in the lab?with outright abortions of far more developed embryos and fetuses in women...
Karpov is also one of the fastest players around, while Korchnoi is very slow; he has lost matches for failing to make the stipulated 40 moves in five hours of play. In Baguio City, the first player to win six games takes the match; since draws are frequent in top-level play, the men will need both ample patience and stamina. To keep in shape, Korchnoi jogs daily; his diet includes health foods and Iranian caviar-of which he has imported enough to last 30 games. Karpov, whom one observer likened to "a Boy Scout," swims, rows and does calisthenics...