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...last week U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull invited Mexican Ambassador Dr. Francisco Najera to his office and handed him a note. Dr. Najera read the note, then tucked it into a diplomatic pouch and sent it by airplane to Mexico City. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read it, made a careful copy for study, forwarded the original to the State of Oaxaca, where President Lázaro Cárdenas was on a tour of inspection. Soulful Señior Cárdenas read it, said nothing but that he would "answer at an opportune time...
With the exception of croquet, fishing is probably the only sport at which women can beat men. Last week brawny members of the world-wide brotherhood of big-game anglers doffed their visors to a member of the sisterhood: attractive, 125-lb. Mary Pouch Smithers Sears, wife of a blue-blooded Boston ichthyologist...
Long accepted by embryologists has been a theory that the marsupial mother tucks her newborn into the pouch with her lips. When, at various times, scientists reported cases of kangaroo and opossum babies crawling up their mothers' inclined bodies into the incubating pouches by themselves, most of their colleagues raised an eyebrow. The fetuses, they said, were too immature for such mountaineering...
...according to Dr. McCrady, the young opossums do exactly that: after the mother has moistened the hair on her abdomen, they slowly pull themselves by the claws on their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...
...pouch the youngsters stay for about 55 days, attached to their mother's body by the swelling of her nipples, too big for their tiny mouths to release. When they have developed to the size of a mouse they crawl about her body, with frequent visits home. Thirty days later, fully developed in everything but size, they leave home for good; but not until three years have passed do they reproduce their teaspoonfilling kind...