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...observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent of a blind man, with both legs broken, crawling through a thick forest to the top of Mount Everest...
...like an exercise in frustration. The Russians, informed of the negotiations-against Dulles' better judgment-churlishly insisted that it was all really a plot to keep them out of the peace arrangements; at one point, Truman called the whole operation off to smooth the Bear's ruffled fur. Nazi changes of command kept eliminating generals who were sympathetic to Sunrise and replacing them with generals who were not. From Berlin, a counterplot by Himmler, designed only to steal the play away from Wolff, threatened to retire Sunrise to the limbo of lost causes. The generals of the various...
...chaff and chicken feed." Last week the Congress had to deal with bills that covered such relatively trivial matters as the burgeoning birth rate of jellyfish, tariffs on imported bagpipes, a $450,000 appropriation to improve sanitation facilities for Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, a measure to conserve fur seals and protect sea otters...
Another debater suggests that ticks, fleas and lice living in the fur of hirsute early man carried epidemic diseases that destroyed whole populations, thus weeding out those carrying the hair gene. So far, no one really knows the answer. Perhaps the change was simply esthetic: bristly bachelors began preferring depilous dames...
...September and is being serialized meanwhile in Good Housekeeping. The First Lady bombarded him with memos, "usually in outrage," protesting "deficiencies in my efforts to preserve the privacy of the children." One little-known factor with in the Kennedy menage was the President's allergy to animal fur-a handicap he bore nobly in view of the expansive zoo of dogs, hamsters, ponies and other pets maintained by the Kennedy children. One of the hamsters doubtless attained rodentian nirvana by drowning in the presidential bathtub...