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...Miss Chase first got interested, and since then she has spent four summers on archaeological expeditions run by the Universities of Toronto and Colorado and the Museum of New Mexico. Her recent trip to Turkey seemed luxurious to her after some earlier trips: "I didn't have to poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots, yes. But, adds Miss Chase, after being winterbound in Manhattan, "It's so nice to sit in the sunshine and scrape the earth with a trowel...
...Malaya and Singapore today, a mem-sahib is more apt to spend her day screaming at the amah, doing the housework herself, or else trying to poach the perfect gem who works for the Arbuthnots. For the old-style amahs, whose white tunics, black silk pajama trousers and smoothly braided hair made them look like pigtailed penguins, belong to a dying race...
...Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach local beer taps, but he is sure that Salinger never went AWOL, as Holden did, and practiced only accepted sorts of nonconformism...
...successful theater and TV producer, a TV panelist, an internationally respected authority on Wedgwood china (he is co-owner of London's largest china shop), and he is the author of three books on pottery. "The theater," says Mankowitz. "is fair game. I reserve the right to poach on anyone's preserves...
...Times will poach on the electronic preserve by using a TV circuit to send a daily ten-page, high-speed facsimile edition (circ. 25,000) to the Republican Convention in time for breakfast in San Francisco...