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...weight of beef cattle, and a comparable increase in milk production-for a cow that is being bled by vampires may yield only 20 quarts of milk a day as against a normal 30. There is no danger of the vampire's becoming extinct, says Mexican Biologist Raul Flores Crespo. "We can reduce the population, but we cannot totally destroy it. The vampire can return to the jungle and live as it did before the coming of the Spanish." That is, by sucking on wild animals but not on horses and cows...
Security varies from airline to airline and from route to route. In too many cases it appears to be slipshod, even on flights to Israel, which presumably are among those most closely checked. Raul Maldonado, 38, a member of the decimated Puerto Rican pilgrimage on Air France Flight 132 last week, insists that security was poor. Maldonado, who was unhurt in the shooting, told TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin: "No one searched me bodily and no one searched my hand baggage when I got on at Orly...
...official close last week, delegates from many developing nations considered extending it for some days. And why not? What UNCTAD lacked in substance it more than made up for in fun and games. The partying was so intense that UNCTAD's founding father, the noted Argentine economist Raul Prebisch, noticeably avoided the meeting, and one Belgian delegate went on a hunger strike in protest. The Chilean government had laid on a cultural program of symphony and folk music, ballet and theater-but had to cancel it after one week because of low attendance...
...that marvelous, but the author (surprisingly, considering his age) sees this. When Yglesias sets down Raul's dilemma, which is how to keep well-intentioned authority from marking his mind before it can grow an adequate protective shell, he does it without the self-pity that might be expected of a young writer. His Raul is induced to return to school temporarily, where he performs brilliantly as Rosencrantz in a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Rosencrantz is more or less his role in life at the moment...
...completely his own and that Holden Caulfield would now be pushing 40. Salinger's novel is a wholly mature work. Yglesias is still capable of childish sentences. But his is a superior novel, without regard to the age of its author. In the end, when Raul has dropped out of school for good, it is hard to know whether his flight is self-preservation or self-destruction, and to the reader this matters very much...