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...undertook the ride not purely in the spirit of adventure," Grunwald wrote with lavish understatement, "but because it offered the only means of transportation to a reindeer roundup that I wanted very much to see. For the first few minutes, a friendly Lapp sat beside me on the precarious vehicle, not improved in design since the stone age, and all was well. But then the caravan stopped for an instant, the Lapp got up, handed me the crude reins, grinned encouragingly, and was gone. There I crouched, staring at the jiggling rump of the reindeer, going like crazy across...
...roundup itself took place in an enclosure in the midst of a thick forest. The reindeer run around in frightened herds and the Lapps walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos . . . The most important thing at the roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp...
Words & Baloney. While no one would deny that the Argentines might have produced some sort of laboratory-scale nuclear reaction, non-Argentine scientists were skeptical. "This is an interesting series of words," said an AEC physicist, "but it means nothing to me." Said Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, onetime chief of the Office of Naval Research: "I know what that other material is that the Argentines are using. It's baloney." Snapped Juan Perón: "I am not interested in what the U.S. or any other country thinks...
Specious reasoning, retorted Physicist Ralph E. Lapp, author of the un-scared book, Must We Hide?. Explosions often have freakish effects. Even comparatively feeble ones have freakishly broken windows many miles away, leaving nearer windows unbroken. One cause: an "inversion" (layer of warm air) in the atmosphere, that reflects shock waves downward -and may concentrate them...
Indictment. In Doerningheim, Germany, Alwin Lapp was thrown out of the Communist Party on a charge of "corruption by bourgeois morals"-specifically, beating his wife...