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...Riviera home--invitiations to which were highly sought after among the British and French as well as American jet-set. Maugham received hundreds of visitors there during his life, mostly men, later using many of them as material for his books and plays. Here, Morgan's style becomes lighter and slightly disjointed as he skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London...
...coping at least with the look of college dorms, which potential donors tend to see first, may be to enlist student support. In an experiment in "dormitory democracy," students at the University of Connecticut took over all the lighter maintenance in one older dorm: building walls, painting, waxing, replacing light bulbs. For six years the plan has kept costs down. And giving the students responsibility also has cut back significantly on vandalism...
What is nothing on its outside, And nothing on its inside, Is lighter than a feather, But ten men cannot pick...
...heat quickly escapes into the atmosphere. In a solar pond, these currents are suppressed by dissolving salt near the bottom of the pond. That creates a layer of denser, heavier water that resists rising to the top even when it is heated by solar rays penetrating the pond. The lighter layer of water at the surface helps to contain the heat below by acting as an insulator. Since very little heat escapes, the temperature at the bottom of the pond quickly rises-to about 80° C (176° F) at Ein Bokek...
Junior Rick Kief's adjustment to the 142-lb. slot has improved with each bout. The broad-shouldered veteran, who used to starve himself trying to make a lighter class, is thriving on the extra calories...