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...through a small hall with flooring that is a mixture of Pennsylvania linoleum and Spanish tile. The courtyard is full of rosebushes, boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed with gallons of champagne. At one end is a playpen big enough for a growing mastiff, but it only contains one tiny Kerr...
...Frog Pond, Maclver...
Salvinia auriculata is a native of tropical America, and no one knows for sure how it got to Africa. One theory is that a 19th century missionary imported it to ornament a pond. The fern's hairy, half-inch-long leaves grow in pairs on a slender stem. Each broken-off bit of stem can start a new colony. Great islands of weed drift around Kariba Lake, entangling boats and clogging harbors. Fishery experts had been counting on Kariba to support an important fishing industry, as other African lakes do, but under Salvinia's thick floating mats...
...showed them the historic experiment in which Luigi Galvani discovered electric currents in a twitching frog's leg. The lessons took. Last week, to the quiet satisfaction of Dr. Travell, now retired at a ripe 91, Younger Daughter Janet, 59, became a big frog in a big pond: President Kennedy named her as his personal physician. She is the first woman White House doctor, and the first nonmilitary physician in that job since the end of Chester A. Arthur's administration...
...depressed areas. What U.S. companies find most fetching abroad is the chance to make bigger profits than in the U.S., thanks to lower costs and rapidly growing markets. H. J. Heinz makes half its sales in foreign markets, and this half produces two-thirds of all Heinz profits. Chesebrough-Pond's gets 57% of its profits from the 40% foreign slice of its sales, Coca-Cola 40% from 35%, Colgate-Palmolive 64% from 51% and International Telephone & Telegraph 75% from 60%. In most of the industrialized free-world countries, there are few or no restrictions on returning profits...