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...life "heartrending," or "damnable." "My emotions are too damnably raw today, I fear," he starts, and in 28,000 words plunges forth to speculate on God, reincarnation, Proust, Balzac, baseball and the charms of the camp director's wife ("quite perfect legs, ankles, saucy bosoms, very fresh, cute hind quarters"), while insistently querying his parents about "what imaginary-sensual acts gave lively, unmentionable entertainment to your minds...
...tangled in a mass (mycelium) that can grow as much as half a mile in 24 hours. Lacking chlorophyll, fungi cannot make their own food, batten instead on fabric, fur, fat, paint, plants, plastics, skeletons, cold cream, jet fuel and people. One species can survive only on the left hind leg of a water beetle. Most fungi reproduce by the sexual union of two different spores, sometimes drop hundreds 'of millions of spores in three or four days. Most of them are important biochemical brokers; some are essential to the cycle of organic decay and regeneration. Without fungi, higher...
...Wellesley halfway point, Canadian Ronald Wallingford took a temporary lead, but Shigematsu, Shishidok, Nakao, Funasako, and Matsubara were now right behind. The Japanese moved on to finish in exactly that order. Wallingford faded back to eleventh, dropping be hind Ostbye at tenth, Valle at ninth; Eino Oksanen, a past winner from Finland, at eighth; and Ralph Buschmann, the leading American in the race, at seventh...
...three days last week Russia's all-powerful Central Committee met be hind closed doors, giving the Kremlinologists in every Western chancellery another round in their perennial guessing game. When Izvestia delayed publication for some hours, an event that had not happened since the committee ousted Nikita Khrushchev last October, the mounting speculation even shook stock prices in Wall Street...
...last week the courtroom drama of Rockefeller v. Murphy unfolded be hind closed doors in White Plains, N.Y. Only the disputants knew just why Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller yielded custody of her four children - James, 13; Margaretta, 11; Carol, 8; and Melinda, 4-to Virologist James S. Murphy when she divorced him in Idaho last year. The public knew only that "Happy" was now demanding custody and that Dr. Murphy, himself recently remarried to a pretty former teacher of his children, was unwilling to give...