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...Story. On the high reaches of the marble cliffs that separate the towns on the Marina River from rural Campagna live two brothers who have abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then...
...milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth (70 lire, one dime,). Then dinner at the hotel (veal scaloppine, salad, spaghetti, bread, butter, cheese, wine, coffee, pastry). An evening for two at one of the small nightclubs-and a ride home in a carriage...
Pillar of Society. All along the U.S. Atlantic coast the eelgrass (Zostera marina) is flourishing again, which is cheering news to U.S. Fish & Wildlife people...
...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...
...Switzerland, the third son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, his wife Princess Adelaide, and his vivacious daughter Princess Victoria Marina,have changed residence from one resort hotel to another, at the request of the management of the first hotel...