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ALUMINUM producers are heading into a buyer's market. Predicts Reynolds Metals President Richard S. Reynolds Jr.: "We will be pounding the pavement [early next year], instead of having customers knocking at our doors...
When the summer sun blisters the Manhattan pavement and the rasp of traffic noise mounts to unbearable decibels, one of the most inviting oases-better even than an air-conditioned movie-is the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art. There, only two blocks north of towering Rockefeller Center, the visitor may walk in peace amidst birches, hornbeams and willows, linger by cool reflecting pools, or sit on convenient benches, looking at sculpture...
...this time of the year, the Gila monsters (thick-bodied venomous lizards with skins like orange and black beadwork) avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like to lie on the pavement, enjoying its lingering warmth. Woodin steps up to the beaded, venomous patient, pins its neck down with a forked stick, and, with practiced skill, slips a specially made, quick-registering clinical thermometer into the beast's rectum...
...time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...
...Rule Book. In Toronto, Roy Wallis complained to police that, although he was uninjured when his automobile crashed into a pole, two solicitous bystanders insisted on applying first aid, dragged him out of the car, twisted his arm to make him lie down on the cold pavement...