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Emptying the Gottwald mausoleum was simple compared with a second task Novotny put before the party: leveling the 6,000-ton marble monument to Stalin, which, on a perch overlooking the city, looms like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply...
...would probably use old-style bombs, and the Russians and others might be invited to participate or observe. But on dry Broom Lake in the isolated northeast corner of the range, a 1,500-ft. tower is under construction for far more advanced testing. On its top will soon perch a small, unshielded nuclear reactor designed to give powerful bursts of neutrons and gamma rays for short periods. There will be no explosion, but scientists will be able to observe the effect of the radiation on test objects (and perhaps animals) arranged around the tower. Thus, they should be able...
...Uganda, where the Nile swirls through the game preserves of Murchison National Park to Lake Albert, fishermen go for Nile perch, a predator that weighs as much as 160 Ibs. in the river and 300 lbs. in the lake. Three-day excursions can be booked with East African Airways from Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth Park (cost: $78) or Murchison Park ($86), and there is an assortment of river, rail and car trips that provide closeup views of the animals. At Murchison travelers can take the "Royal" cottages (where Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth stayed two years/ago) for $7.25; overflow...
...would boost enemy morale. Battered tin cans on Okinawa radar picket duty fought "to survive against the flaming terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks on Honshu, the Navy's land-fighting arm fought what General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith called "the most savage and the most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps...
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...