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...seven seas, of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. To titillate his fancy, she also spoke of three girls from Baghdad who danced & naked with a porter. Of a lady who beseeched two men to "pierce me with your rapiers." Of a woman's passion for a monkey, and a bear...
...company, known affectionately to its customers as Monkey Ward, grew rapidly at first, but then became stagnant. From 1941 to 1957, it did not open a single new store, while Sears moved aggressively into the booming suburbs of postwar America. When recession and high interest rates rocked retailing in the 1970s, Montgomery Ward could no longer hang on alone. After Mobil took it over, the retailer earned $105 million in 1978, but it soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president...
...wearing surgical masks to reduce the danger of possible infection, had managed by using vacuum cleaners to clear the air and get on with the major business of the 17th shuttle flight: conducting scientific experiments in the Spacelab. The two physicians aboard observed and tended to the rat and monkey menagerie, checking the animals' reaction to weightlessness and looking for clues to the space sickness that has plagued many astronauts during their first few days in space. Meanwhile, two physicists and a chemical engineer were busy on projects ranging from shooting pictures of the auroras and growing crystals in solution...
...example, were extinctions so selective, devastating some species while leaving others virtually unscathed? Try as they might, scientists could not devise a single elegant theory to tie the loose ends together. They were about to get what they asked for, but like the British author W.W. Jacob's infamous monkey's paw (which granted wishes --at a price), it would not be an unsullied blessing...
Proprieties tend to wilt in the pervasive heat. In Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey, a rising calypso singer strikes a deal at a Barbados nightclub with a white man who owns a trained monkey; the performer gets the onstage use of the animal, and the owner gets a night with a stunning black woman in the singer's entourage. Overhearing this transaction, an American visitor solemnly interrupts: "Gentlemen, forgive me. You cannot trade a woman for a monkey...