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...with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest entry: You Can Do the Cube (Penguin; $1.95) by Patrick Bossert, 13, a London schoolboy who discovered the cube only this spring during a family ski vacation in Switzerland. Within five days he had mastered the monster, and later began selling his schoolmates a four-page, mimeographed tip sheet for 45?. An alert editor at Penguin saw a copy and persuaded the prodigy to turn pro. The 112-page result contains three dozen "tricks" for solving the cube (using logic rather than math), as well...
...rainy Saturday night in darkest Somerville, Mass.-a time and place suitable for filming the maiden-munching scene of a monster flick-a long line of wet people huddle under the blue-and-white awnings of Steve's. Another 50 sodden citizens wait inside. They are lining up to buy ice cream-carob, perhaps, or banana coffee, since a temporary shortage of fine cinnamon has made the obvious first choice of chocolate-cinnamon-raisin unavailable-at a cost of $1.60 for a large scoop with one mix-in, or $2 for a large scoop with three...
...John the Baptist had been beheaded and the Messiah proclaimed on the same day. Said George Schlatter, producer of Laugh-In and, for Silverman, Real People: "Freddie is imaginative, inventive, aggressive. He tried a lot of things, but unfortunately they didn't work. But then, TV is a monster. It eats up shows, performers and executives. Grant will be taking on a tremendous amount, but there's an enormous sense of buoyance and anticipation now. Seldom has any development in this business been met with this kind of enthusiasm. There's no wait-and-see about...
...goose-necked creature sunning itself off the shore of Lake Champlain may look like an inflatable beach toy, but there are those who insist that Champ is a genuine sea monster. Amateur Photographer Sandra Mansi, for one. Four years ago, says Mansi, she snapped Champ with her Kodak Instamatic. To see if the photo had been doctored, it was sent to the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center for close scrutiny. B. Roy Frieden, 44, professor of optical sciences, pronounced it see-worthy. But skeptics are nettled by a number of things: 1) the possibility of a nearby sand...
...movie gets underway, we realize that we have actually missed most of man's grimmest hour. Christianity has penetrated deep into the British backwoods, while the monster population has taken a perilous tailspin. Only one winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...