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...about 11:30 p.m. when he was insulted by two teenagers, aged approximately 17 and 19. Emerging from Cahalys', he was followed by one of them. When Staley turned to ask why he was being followed, the second boy stepped out of the shadows, caught him with a left hook...
...series of electrified tin fish. Small trout passing through it will get scare after scare and emerge fully trained for life in a dangerous river. But the biologist is still bothered. Why should successful students grow to bright-colored maturity only to be caught on an angler's hook? "I have become so fond of the lovely rainbow trout," he says with a tender smile, "that I may start another project to teach them to stay away from hooks. It should be easy enough. Rainbow trout are really smart...
...Arcy, anxious to throw his strong right hook, consistently held it too low to provide adequate defense against Hanley's jabs which bloodied D'Arcy's face by the second round. Hanley's face-high fists served to block most of D'Arcy's blows, while the champ failed to punch to Hanley's vulnerable body...
...seconds after the first round began, Szum landed his first punch, a fearsome right hook to Cobey's left temple. Obviously stunned by the impact, Cobey could offer little resistance as Szum swarmed in with a series of clubbing rights and lefts that floored his opponent...
...bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook up to jets at air terminals) but many more for the future. This past Christmas, for example, Hugo told the world that by 1972 all Negroes can have all-white children if they wish, merely by agreeing to let chemigeneticists toy with their enzymes...