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...Missouri, insane asylum. Perhaps Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...
...California: Vanishing Lands, Vanishing Wildlife by A. Starker Leopold and Raymond F. Dasmann (University of California; 144 pages; $29.95). A different breed of actors, seldom seen on Rodeo Drive, populates this sumptuous bargain of a book. San Joaquin kit foxes, yellow- bellied marmots, California bighorn sheep and mountain lions patrol the high mountains and hidden valleys; bald eagles and hawks, herons and condors find their lonesome rookeries. Some of Tupper Ansel Blake's photographs--a grove of bishop pines at Point Reyes, the promontories of Santa Cruz Island fading into the mist--evoke Japanese prints. All eloquently plead the book...
...Gelber is at his post in North House's Moors Hall. Linus will stay up for seven hours and patrol the Quad three times during the night...
...gets $5.35 an hour to stay awake, patrol his assigned area, report any violence, switch off the lights in the morning and make sure that all the doors on his patrol route are secure...
...Carney, the commanding officer of the Cambridge tactical patrol force, attributed much of the decrease in crime to neighborhood crime watches and to increasingly stringent enforcement of motor vehicle codes...