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...comes to Cambridge with three of the best wrestlers in the Ivy League. 123-pounder Rich Sofman is unbeaten for the year, and holds a decision over Cornell's Neal Orr (Orr pinned the Crimson's Mike King, who could be in for a rough afternoon). At heavyweight, 230-pound Bruce Jacobsohn has been a Quaker standout for three years...
After reading Joel E. Cohen's article on celestial seeds I rushed to the Nature Food Centre opposite the Cambridge Gas Company, plunked down my 79 cents, and asked the little white-haired landy behind the counter for a pound of shelled, unroasted, unsalted sunflower seeds. She gave me a bagful, saying in a quavering voice that it was her last, as there had been a peculiar run on the market...
Lights & Inner Tubes. But try to catch one. No fish has a greater ability to bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving...
Achene as biologists may be on calling a seed a fruit, those who pursue the seed celestial know a seed when they seed one. Lovers of the bloody thumb can buy half pound packs, roasted but unsalted, for 39 cents at Posin's on 16th Street in Washington. These seeds are fresh but you have to crack them yourself. The height of sunflower comes in little glass jars at Cardullo's: roasted, salted, shelled, and sealed, four and a quarter ounces for 57 cents...
before you set off, rapture on your face, for Central Square. There, opposite the Cambridge Gas Company, you will find one of the six Nature Food Centres in Boston. And in this Nature Food Centre you will find shelled, unroasted, unsalted sunflower seeds for 79 cents a pound...