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They are Evelyn B. Ackerman of Edmands House and Brooklyn, N.Y. (History and Literature); Vivian O. Berger, of * Hall and New York City (History and Literature); Nancy L. Caroline of 83 Brattle St. and Newton Center (Social Relations); S. Jean Herriot, of Moors Hall and Palo Alto, Calif, (History); Mary Lou Mackey, of 24 Garden St. and Indianapolis Ind. (English); Patricia A. Munse of Comstock Hall and Urbann, * (Biology); Elisabeth Neumark, of * House and Jamaica, N.Y. (Mathematics); and Susan N. Rosenthal, of Moors Hall and Tenafly, N.J. (Chemistry...
When Hurst arrived in Camelot with the U.S. ambassador (played by 37-year-old Palo Alto Attorney Paul McCloskey Jr., a Marine reserve major), he was confronted by the local mayor, the regional governor, various American assistance officers, and Lancelot's army chief of staff, all of whom peppered the general with outrageous demands and entreaties. It was up to Hurst to field each demand, each new problem, and he played his part well, as General Krulak observed from a corner of the room...
...Claranel Strange McNamara, 78, mother of the Defense Secretary, who so valued the education typhoid kept her from completing that by the time young Robert started school she had force-read him, as she said, "as much literature as a normal 13-year-old knows"; of a stroke; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...perfectly fossilized bones are remains of Paleoparadoxia ("Ancient contradiction"), an amphibious mammal bigger than a rhinoceros that wallowed in the shallows 15 to 20 million years ago when California's Coast Ranges had not yet risen and the site of inland Palo Alto was still under the sea. Paleoparadoxia belongs to a long-extinct order, the desmostylians, which lived the lives of saltwater hippopotamuses around the shores of the North Pacific. It was first found in Japan, but the Palo Alto skeleton is the only one found in North America...
...Palo Alto specimen probably died nonviolently, then its body sank to the ocean floor. A few shark teeth were found among the bones, suggesting that sharks may have had a few bites of paradoxia's plentiful flesh before a storm or flood covered the body with sand. Then sediment from the sierras covered it deeply, and a mountain range pushed upward between its grave and the ocean. At last big-brained primates, which had not evolved during its lifetime, brought it into the sunlight while searching for the secrets of infinitesimal matter...