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Meryman's office now looks like a wildlife refuge. A red fox poses hungrily on a bookcase. A black crow, wings outstretched, sits on a windowsill. Brightly colored small birds perch on pencil tops, and a brown bat swings malevolently from the ceiling, suspended by a nearly invisible wire. All look amazingly lifelike, preserved by Meryman's "freeze-dry" process and apparently able to stay in good condition indefinitely. The fox was shot by Meryman when it invaded his hen house. "He accounted for 27 hens," says Meryman, "before I freeze-dried him." The other specimens were collected...
...back of the chamber and walked over to Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...
Charles Ives had so little hope of his music's being performed that he scrawled most of his scores in pencil, then stuffed them haphazardly in bureau drawers or discarded them. As his health failed, he composed less and less (most of his major works were written before 1920) and withdrew increasingly from the outside world. He rarely would see visitors at his house in West Redding, never read a newspaper, refused to own either a radio or a phonograph. He was not even aware that in Europe, Schoenberg and his disciples were creating a new musical language, having...
...FOREIGN PENCILS are cutting U.S. wooden pencil industry down to "peril point," argued Lead Pencil Manufacturers Assn. before U.S. Tariff Commission. They claim that export market has almost vanished and imports are grinding away at domestic profits...
...women's Olympic track-and-field trials in Abilene, Texas last week, the most conspicuous onlooker was a chunky, intense young Negro with a pencil-thin mustache, who seemed to be all over the field. Between races, he paced the infield grass incessantly. At the finish line, hands clenched, chest thrust forward, his face a mask of rigid concentration, he pantomimed the runners breaking the tape. When the trials were over, the results were surprisingly good, and the credit belonged largely to 29-year-old Edward S. Temple, coach of Tennessee State University's "Tigerbelles...