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...trio of Smith, Ken Parrot, and Captain Donald Grimble, with 27 points in four games, gives Harris a solid first line. Parrot has six goals and five assists. Harris classes him as an exceptionally "clever puck handler." Captain Grimble with five goals and three assists is "a good, fast skater." Smith is a "big, strong 200-pounds" and has three goals and five assists in the four games...
When the scientists swam under water to collect fish samples, they found hordes of parrot fish, surgeonfish and goatfish, and school after school of brightly striped convict fish; significantly, none of them appeared altered by radioactivity. A few species, however, did not come through so well. The coconut crab, once a delicacy of the atolls, is now inedible because it has retained such a high level of strontium 90. The reason is that when the crab molts, it eats its old shell for the mineral content and so reabsorbs its radioactivity...
...town, Jean-Paul went out into the jungle one night and came back to the hotel with a dozen baby crocodiles, crept into rooms late at night and put a baby croc into everyone's bidet. Soon he had two baby leopards, four macaws, several adolescent crocodiles, a parrot and three snakes in his own room. Remembers the film's producer: "The crocodiles ate the birds. The leopards ate the crocodiles. The snakes died of starvation. The room stank like the bottom of some Amazonian cesspool...
...Litchfield Jr., 63, the chairman of first-ranking Aluminum Co. of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard ('23), he tramped the jungles of Latin America and Africa as a geologist in search of bauxite, learned to speak five languages and eat such delicacies as parrot soup, struck oil for Alcoa in Texas and along the way found time to be an athlete (rowing), amateur artist, rider and hunter. Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking, talking and listening about marketing and sales." Last week Litchfield raised...
...Joyce Pratt, manager of the Brattle, said that no increase in price for movie tickets or refreshments downstairs was envisioned. The greatest changes will be downstairs, where the lobby next to the Blue Parrot will be made three times as large and the passageway to the Casablanca will be three feet wider, the new lobby will be paneled, and the entire downstairs floor covered with wall-to-wall carpeting...