Word: hatchings
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Died. Carl Atwood Hatch, 73, Democratic Senator from New Mexico from 1933 to 1949, author of the 1939 and 1940 Hatch Acts, designed to prevent "pernicious political activities" in national campaigns; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque. The Hatch Acts limit annual party expenditures to $3,000,000, forbid all save top-level federal employees from politicking or being dunned for contributions. But campaign committees find ways to evade the ceiling, and wild horses cannot stop every good man, civil servant or no, from coming to the aid of his party...
Nothing of the Beat. So began Carson's wonderful travels. To those who follow Carson's tormented trail, Spain will always seem madder, Germany more maddening, and Italy more wonderful because Carson has been there. He proves that the world does have an escape hatch...
...hoist those big balloons up through the hatch of the blimp? Nobody thinks of cutting the strings and letting the balloons just drift away as Gig holds on to Grover. Instead, Buttons takes a rifle and plugs the balloons one by one while hanging from the blimp by his belt. Eventually the last balloon goes splop-psssssssss. And so does the movie...
...island near Bikini, showing how animals and birds have been violently affected by the radiation from H-bomb tests. Fish have come out of the water to live in trees, and birds have tunneled underground, never to fly again. Other birds have been trying for years to hatch eggs killed by the bomb, and sea turtles whose sense of direction has been destroyed by radiation crawl inland and die after laying their eggs. After a panorama shot of the birds and a turtle, people in the theatre wept audibly...
Cause of all the trouble is a wiggly tailed, microscopic larva that lives out its life as an unwelcome hitchhiker in both snails* and man. Hatched in fresh water, the schistosomal larva must invade a snail within about 24 hours or die. After weeks of development and change in the snail, the larvae move on and burrow into a human body, where they mature and mate in the bloodstream. Then they settle down to years devoted to depositing eggs in vital organs. The adult parasites live in an almost constant state of copulation and the female can produce...