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...playing with fire between tea and dinner; to watch strange weapons (which occasionally worked) being tried out with live ammunition beside the wallflower beds on the lawn; to glimpse the colonel in something between a duck punt and a one-man submarine among the water lilies on the ornamental pond...
...first game of organized hockey in the U.S. was played more than 60 years ago at St. Paul's School, near Concord, N.H., and no St. Paul's grad has ever let anyone forget it. On the black ice of Lower School Pond (it's a bad year when the ice won't bear by Thanksgiving and last till Washington's Birthday), 400 of St. Paul's 437 boys play on 30 intramural teams, on six outdoor rinks, under a dozen assorted coaches. Hockey has always been the school's major sport...
...usually of notably mild appearance, having been detached from the ordinary Army service because of their clerkly gifts." To set the stage she went clear back to the '80s and the meeting (at Harrow) of young Winston Churchill and young Leopold Amery, when Winston pushed Amery into a pond. She sympathetically followed Amery's career into the respected, conservative Cabinet member he became. Of his wayward elder son she wrote: "John Amery was not insane, he was not evil, but his character was like the kind of car that will not hold to the road. . . . There are some...
...water fleas. These swarming, near-microscopic relatives of crabs and lobsters are the staff of life for many other aquatic species, which are ultimately the food of fish. But if DDT gets into their water, it knocks the daphnia cold. A single pound of DDT in a 38-acre pond averaging ten feet in depth, warns Professor Anderson, is enough to kill the daphnia-and thus eventually starve the fish...
...each composer can lock himself in to work in privacy. There, during the past two summers, Shostakovich finished his Eighth Symphony, Khachaturian, his Second, and Prokofiev finished his Fifth and began his Sixth. Prokofiev worked in a glassed-in verandah - containing couch, grand piano, chair and table -overlooking a pond where Ivanovo village kids swim...