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Those were golden years when the high-caste "Goat's Nest" ruled loosely over an ultra-social Claverly Hall. Old Jim Cronin had put white marble-topped tables in his restaurant on Bow-Street, and on occasion those tables were moved together to seat about 60 Harvard professors and student cosmopolites for a high-life dinner. There were no singing waiters, certainly, but table was served by quite a few musical Divinity School students who, as Jim puts it, "have since become reverend doctors...
Military Objective. Some of Germany's new rich have cultivated their indulgences along with their undoubted abilities. In the vicinity of industrial Frankfurt, the most popular indulgence was Rosemarie Nitribitt, a big-eyed and notably globoid blonde. Rosie's nest was feathered with Persian rugs, green velvet chairs, thick draperies, a multitude of mirrors, and a French double bed. Her closets were jammed with Paris-label dresses and 40 pairs of Italian shoes; and she always kept handy at least 150,000 marks (about $35,000) in cash...
...Philips, whose fear of combat has led him to booze his way into his wife's disaffections. He gets popped by a North Korean MIG, bails out over enemy territory. Mitchum, of course, has only to scoot home and catch a quick shower in order to nest down with the missing flyer's spouse (May Britt). Instead, the red-blooded rat turns true blue; he bellylands his plane, heaps Philips over his shoulder and reels (about 25) back to their own lines. There Philips' repentant wife waves disconsolate farewell to Mitchum, but he does not even notice...
...offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, promptly went onto the alert; in Washington the Department of State protested that Peking was "raising the specter of war." And in the process, Khrushchev's longstanding campaign to persuade the world that the Communist nations are just one big nest of peace lovers suffered a sharp setback...
...says flatly: "Prophylaxis consists in constructing houses so as to avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never cracked. They're like iron. Why?" A research project was hurriedly launched, provided the answer: ovenbirds in Sao Paulo build their rock-hard, crackproof, oven-shaped nests with a mixture of sand...