Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gravure's payroll (together with four of his relatives) since 1945,
after serving three years in the pen. But a share was slipped to a
Longshoremen's Union official, Cornelius Noonan, who helped Gross
engineer the shakedown.
Under Rocks. Dr. Segal is no native Kansan. "I was born on the upper East Side of New York, in the shadow of the el," he says. "I was thrown out of school several times, and in junior high school I was voted the least likely to succeed. Mostly I was thrown out of school because I liked to cut class and turn over rocks in Van Cortlandt Park. The craziest things crawled...
...clock works, is trying to find out if slugs can adapt their clocks to suit new artificial environments. He is also fascinated by another talent of slugs. When the temperature of their environment rises, their heartbeat, breathing and metabolism all increase. But a speeded-up slug kept at high temperatures does not burn out. After a while, it resumes a normal, sluglike pace. Some regulating system has adjusted its behavior to the new high temperature...
...listening. They're just being polite." The National Science Foundation feels differently, has given Dr. Segal a $21,000 grant in the hope that his study of the slugs' ability to adjust to temperature may provide clues in helping humans adapt to tough environments-such as high altitudes or outer space...
...older brother Hank, who regularly got one haircut a year (from his mother), boasted that he never changed his winter underwear in summer. The brothers spent most of their time hunting and fishing on the flats and marshy lands that flank the river. Chris Smith never bothered with high school; instead, he shoved off as a deckhand on the steamer Arundel, worked summers on the lake boats. But as vacationing sportsmen came to Algonac, Hank and Chris began building small boats for rent. Hank and he would search the woods for a walnut stump, dig it out and work...