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...someone to help me," she said. "There was only one passenger who didn't look at us as if we had leprosy. He got up and put his thumb in Craig's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue. Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said, 'Your baby has strong teeth. He just bit me.'" Craig recovered from the convulsions brought on by a fever, but it was several days before Mrs. Chasnov found out who the good Samaritan was. An aide casually telephoned from New York...
...mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...
That Grand Hunk...
...Heaps of kudos on the Canada cover story [Sept. 30]: informative, illuminating and timely. I hope some conservationists in the U.S. read between the lines and instigate some cooperative move with kin dred interest in Canada. Booms are good, but at least a dab or two of that grand hunk of real estate needs protection...
Considering the 6-ft. 8-in. size of the man, it was like looking for a needle in a bonefish. Dining with University of British Columbia dons in Vancouver, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, choked on a bony hunk of the area's famed broiled salmon. As he told it, "There followed a contest, between myself and the salmon, that was a great sporting event on the whole. At the hospital, they tried casting for it; then they trolled for it, and that didn't work either. And then, after they used, a general anesthetic, I learned...