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...zoologist, Bigelow was an authority on fish, and particularly on sharks and rays. He also specialized in the study of coelanterates--invertebrates such as jellyfish...
...currents and numbing cold. Last week Stewart Evans, 41, an Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...
...sessions in memory, the 89th Congress feverishly wound up its business last week and adjourned. With its final key measure, appropriating $5 billion for various Great Society programs-the 50th major bill adopted in the current session-Congress had in 1966 alone approved legislation that ranged from an anti-jellyfish measure to a new antipoverty law, and authorized expenditures of some $144.6 billion, second only to the $147 billion that it appropriated for a world...
...always in a session's last days, there was a deluge of what Les Arends calls "the chaff and chicken feed." Last week the Congress had to deal with bills that covered such relatively trivial matters as the burgeoning birth rate of jellyfish, tariffs on imported bagpipes, a $450,000 appropriation to improve sanitation facilities for Wisconsin's Menominee Indians, a measure to conserve fur seals and protect sea otters...
...their air supply, they snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...