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...Eliot House dropped a message-laden bottle overboard last summer while on a cruise in the Arctic Ocean, and it turned up April 22 on a Scottish beach. Rand received the message and a letter last week from the finder--John MacIntyre of South Uist, Lochboisdale, in the Outer Hebrides...
...French. "In the major plot configuration of French films, human wishes are opposed by the nature of life itself. The main issue is not one of inner or outer conflicts in which we may win or lose, be virtuous or get penalized. It is a contest in which we all lose in the end, and the problem is to learn to accept it. There are inevitable love disappointments, the world is not arranged to collaborate with our wishes, people grow older, lovers become fathers, the old must give way to the young, and eventually everyone dies ... It is in keeping...
...lands visited by the late Dr. Lemuel Gulliver, the similarity of names between the hierarchy of Siamese princes and politicians on the one hand, and the movers & shakers of the Lilliputian empire on the other, is almost irresistible. There is a close parallelism between Phibun Songgram, in-&-outer and erstwhile Jap collaborator, and Admiral Skyresh Bolgolam, whose undying enmity Gulliver incurred; between Pridhi Banomyong and Reldresal, Lilliputian Secretary for Private Affairs, friend and champion of the Man-Mountain; and between Siamese princes of the blood such as Prince Chumphot and the Frelock brothers, who were entrusted with the diplomatic mission...
...like saucers." Since then U.S. newspapers and magazines have credulously - or jokingly- printed hundreds of other stories about flying saucers, usually based on "reports of eyewitnesses." The witnesses generally seemed to believe that flying saucers exist, that they were manufactured by the U.S. or Russia, or came from the outer reaches- maybe from Venus or Mars...
...Moffle, the heavy hitting holdover from last year's nine, should be the mainstay of the gardeners. Ed Foynes, Gordon Ellis, Dick Kobusch, are all veterans and Mac Morrison, Bernie Akillian, and Ralph Robinson are promising sophomores. Practically speaking, McInnes will probably have less trouble with the outer pastures than any other part of the field...