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Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...
...except that the talk starts at $36,000. Both sides are so far apart that a meeting scheduled to be held last week never came off because President Sayen insisted on meeting in Chicago (his headquarters), while American insisted on Manhattan (its headquarters). Said Manhattan Federal Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan, who ordered the strike postponed for at least a week: "It all gets pretty silly. The attitude of neither party commends itself to the court. Both have failed morally in the matter...
...animal had been known to develop arterial disease like a human being's, despite ingenious laboratory tricks. Researchers have learned much from rabbits, rats and chickens, but findings from these lower forms of life cannot be applied simply and directly to human diseases. The baboon, despite its lousy pelt, its foul temper and its embarrassingly lurid hind quarters (brilliant scarlet in the female when she is in heat) seemed the answer to a researcher's prayer...
Symbols of Liberty. Imperceptibly, the glad grew smaller. On Greek Independence Day, Teacher Durrell found his blackboard shrouded in crape with the message: WE DEMAND OUR FREEDOM ! Among the first symbols of liberty in modern Cyprus were Coca-Cola bottles, with which Author Durrell one day saw his girls pelt the police. During this "operatic phase" of the disturbances, Durrell took the post of press adviser to the governor. He still hoped that neither British hotheads ("Squeeeze the Cyps") nor Cypriot hotheads ("The British must go") would prevail. In retrospect, he believes that had Britain granted the Cypriots the right...
...beaver pelt, once the currency of a frontier, has had a treacherous history. In the 1840s the fashion for men's beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...