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...mother creeps up, whacks the tail of an enormous cayman, then darts back as it lunges for her. The game continues until the male jaguar takes over, feints past the cayman's jaws, gets a death grip and drowns the reptile. The jaguars lose no battles, although their prey sometimes escapes. Working singly or as a team, they kill a snorting peccary (wild pig) and a huge boa constrictor, and frighten a tapir out of its scant wits...
...Tears. In two states the bandwagon nearly overshot its goal. Some Iowa delegates got hot because of Kennedyite attempts to get a public commitment out of Kennedy-leaning Governor Herschel Loveless; so enraged were some delegates that a few fell prey to the sweet-talk of Lyndon Johnson and his wife Lady Bird, when they came calling. In Colorado a critical casualty turned up at the delegates' convention in Durango, where Kennedy forces ganged up on Lyndon Johnson Supporter Edwin C. Johnson, who wanted to be named to the delegation. A three-time Governor and a thrice-elected...
...Nimble Prey. ASROC (antisubmarine rocket) is a foresighted Navy provision against hostile copies of its own nuclear submarines, which have made the antisub weapons of World War II as obsolete as blunderbusses. Non-nuclear submarines, depending on storage batteries for underwater propulsion, can move at full speed for only a few miles, then have to slow down to a walk to save electricity. A destroyer that makes sonar contact can hover over such a sub for hours, dropping slow-sinking depth charges. But the nuclear submarines-called "nukes"-can cruise underwater for weeks at top speed. When a destroyer makes...
...make matters worse for Mantle, another factor-totally divorced from baseball-seems to prey on his mind. Mantle's father died of cancer in 1952 at the age of 40. Two uncles died young. Mantle himself has a history of osteomyelitis. Says Coleman, in agreement with others: "I just bet he doesn't think he'll last until he's 50. I was the Yankees' player representative, and I know that whenever pensions were brought up, Mickey would always say, 'Well, you don't have to worry about a pension...
...enterprising Parisian pimp named Pierre Sorlut set out two years ago to corner the nymphlet market. Pierre recruited his pubescent charmers among girls aged 12 to 18, first by seducing them and then by arranging dates with wealthy clients with infantile tastes. Pierre's particular prey were the pouting little imitators of Brigitte Bardot, with puffball hairdos and ambitions to become starlets or models. "How could I live without my little cats?" Pierre would say as he collected the earnings of Janine, Colette and Monique. If a girl proved difficult, Pierre would speak musingly of vitriol and its effects...