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...movements. For three nights the boy and his kidnaper slept in the car. Each morning the two drove into the back country west of Everett. They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food"), once observed "a grouse, a muskrat and six deer all in a bunch." The nature lovers encountered a dog, which Lee named Rex. As the second day went by, Lee became weary, pleaded...
...grab bag" is an expression used to describe every freshman team during the first week of the fall term. But at this university the phrase belongs--and always has belonged--to Coach Dana Getchell, and his bag of tricks is the freshman soccer hopefuls...
Victory induces high spirits, and the first chance for victory will come when the freshman boosters will meet a fired-up Exeter team on October 9. Until then, we can only look into Getchell's grab...
...life five centuries ago in the castle of Tiffauges. His parents died before he was twelve, and he came under the wing of his grandfather, Jean de Craon, a notorious libertine and murderer who felt nothing was too bad to teach the boy and nothing was too good to grab for him. Grandfather attempted to wed the boy at 13 to the four-year-old daughter of a Norman lord, but that was too much even for medieval sensitivities, and the Parliament of Caen blocked the marriage. So Grandfather kidnaped the young heiress to the barony of Tiffauges...
...Communism's most direct and successful grab for power in South America, a dentist named Cheddi B. Jagan won an election and took office four years ago in British Guiana. Britain's embarrassed answer then was a task force of three warships and 700 troops to depose him. Last week, after the Northwestern University-educated dentist swept another election (TIME, Aug. 12), a wiser, gentler Britain tried a subtler answer-dumping the difficult problems of running the poverty-stricken little colony directly into Cheddi Jagan...