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Faculty wives do not appreciate Dr. Segal's slimy pets. "They want to know what a big lug like me is doing with slugs. I try to explain, but most of them aren't listening. They're just being polite." The National Science Foundation feels differently, has given Dr. Segal a $21,000 grant in the hope that his study of the slugs' ability to adjust to temperature may provide clues in helping humans adapt to tough environments-such as high altitudes or outer space...
...taxi fare (38?) seemed reasonable enough, but not to the passenger, who was singularly belligerent for 10 a.m. "Go to hell!" she roared. "I have no money." The cabby summoned a bobby, who steered his charge to Liverpool magistrate's court, needed help from three more lawmen to lug the copper-tressed spitfire before the judge. The clerk asked her name. "To your regret and my pride, Sarah Churchill." In the box, Actress Sarah, 44, did nothing to help her cause by snarling ad-lib comments on the testimony, made an unconvincing plea of innocence on the stand...
...play the Fishmonger Scene sprawling in a comfortable chair, his leg thrown casually over its arm, it will not be easy for him to give the impression that he has something on his mind. Mr. Benthall has cut Hamlet's line about the murdered Polonius: "I'll lug the guts into the neighbor room"--and this is a sure sign that he intended to give us not Shakespeare's Hamlet, goaded by a magnificent saeve indignatio, but the charming exquisite foisted on us by certain critics...
...older brother was also a jockey, and he was killed in a spill at Tijuana in 1932. Last week Jack went out to ride the King Ranch's Well Away at Hollywood Park with his old, slashing style. A quarter-mile from the wire the filly began to lug in. Westrope stood up in the stirrups and walloped her on the head to keep her from bolting off the track. Nothing worked. His mount threw him onto the rail, and he died of multiple fractures and internal injuries soon after he reached the hospital...
...Rich owed thanks to Fellow Director d'Harnoncourt, who rounded up a volunteer crew of eleven to wrestle the huge, glass-covered, 10-ft.-long painting (weight: more than 500 Ibs.) from its temporary wooden frame, cover it with paper and tarpaulin against smoke and water stains and lug it to safety. To the credit of the museum staff, who struggled through smoke and water to carry paintings out of danger, only nine paintings out of a total of over 2,000 worth more than $4,000,000 were destroyed or damaged...