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...Richard Nixon added a court astrologer to his already massive staff? On the Chinese calendar, the lunar year 4670 starts on Feb. 15, and will be known as the Year of the Rat. The President plans to arrive in Peking on Feb. 21, the seventh and most auspicious day of the Chinese New Year observance. If the sun shines on that day, according to the Chinese folklore, the whole year will be a bright one for mankind...
...black cape, wearing a Mephistophiles beard and an upside-down crucifix, cultivating a rap of strange mumbo-jumbo, anywhere from the teachings of the English satanist Aleister Crowley to the fascist meanderings of Robert Heinlein's science fiction masterpiece, Stranger in a Strange Land. Hippie became a laboratory rat for Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest, for out on the street, the rule of the land seemed to rest solidly on the idea that the weird shall inherit the earth; it was a case of the survival of the weirdest. Exploit or be exploited and the quickest...
Most zoos with animals like Tasmanian rat kangaroos, white dolphins, snow leopards, cheetahs and a rare Indian barking deer would be swamped with visitors. Cell Biologist T.C. Hsu (pronounced shoe) has assembled more than 300 rare species in a collection that rivals New York's huge Bronx Zoo; but it draws no crowds. Dr. Hsu's pets are all in test tubes, stored in steel bins at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute...
...creatures in the night country, and he tells marvelous stories about them. He tells of a farmer who has a monster living in the well beneath his house, and a novelist who offered a toast to the triumph of mankind, unaware that he was being observed by a bemused rat. He tells of an old rancher who shocked his family by keeping the skeleton of his sister, murdered by Apaches, in the china closet. And of the lonely bachelor who had found and fallen in love with what he believed to be a petrified woman...
...weighed in at 227 Ibs., his heaviest ever, peppered away during the first ten rounds with his rat-a-tat-tat left jabs and a supposedly merciful "new" punch he calls the "linger on," a light chopping right designed to daze but not drop a lesser opponent. Mathis, surprisingly agile for a big man, suggested a pachyderm on pointe, dancing, dipping and doing no damage whatsoever. In the final two rounds, Ali decked Mathis four times-twice with punches that were little more than taps...