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...Bengal. In this century's worst natural disaster, a cyclone-rose up from the bay last year and swept across the coastal area of East Pakistan, killing as many as 500,000. Last week the ghastly business of counting bodies along the bay's palm-fringed coastline was under way again. A storm with shrieking 120-m.p.h. winds, torrential rains and a 15-ft. tidal wave struck India's Orissa State, southwest of Calcutta. The death toll was set officially at 12,000, though unofficial estimates indicated that it could be closer to 25,000. Fully...
...detail on the "intimate Malraux" from 30 interviews with the former Culture Minister. He relates, for example, that the sartorially elegant Malraux buys his blue serge and black wool-twist suits at Lanvin and that he dines frequently at an exclusive Paris restaurant, Lasserre, on hearts of palm, grilled steak and an orange filled with sherbet...
...L.S.B. Leakey, wangled a grant and packed the young lady off to chase chimps. At first she could not get within 500 yards of her subjects. Real discoveries started, however, when a bold chimp she called David Graybeard strolled into her camp one day and began chewing on a palm nut. Lured by bananas, his friends followed. Jane in turn followed the band on its jungle journeys-sometimes, despite scary scrapes with leopards, she even stayed with them all night-and gathered impressive evidence that the chimpanzee has a far more complex life-style than anybody had supposed...
...lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone, and one last blinking of something-a jewel, a ring, a coin cupped in his palm, and darkness comes between us and is final...
Fine Mimicry. It does, and he does. It turns out that the lady is far from unwilling, since she has a bad case of middle-age milgrims herself, and her pedantic husband is a desultory bedmate. From that time on, Luke has power and fate in the palm of his hand. He jots down options, usually from one to six, and abides by the roll of the dice. What the dice-ordained life gives Luke is a sense of euphoric irresponsibility and almost infinite possibilities. When the dice order Luke to jog up and down in his office clad...