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Half an hour later, the first rescuers and firemen toiled up the rutted road to the mesa's top. A Coast Guard plane had flown over and told them what to expect. It looked, said one of them, "as if you had thrown a ripe melon against a wall." The plane had splattered its smoking pieces over five acres. All 44 passengers and six crewmen were dead...
...Contact. What might the balloon barrage accomplish? Crusade for Freedom is not, so far, suggesting revolt, for revolt-like General Bor's in Warsaw -can be premature and disastrous. Instead, the balloons are an imaginative experiment in contact, bearing a message of hope until the time might be ripe for other words...
...into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis can polish off 100 incipient mosquitoes...
...hundred and fifty years is a ripe age for a midwestern city. For almost 200 of those years, Detroit slumbered. First a fort, then a town, by 1896 it was a contented city of 285,000 which brewed a little beer, made a few families wealthy through lumbering and mining, turned out carriages and stoves and let its arteries harden in dignity. But beer and dignity were not its destiny. Charles Brady King chugged down a street in a horseless carriage. Three months later came Henry Ford in another ugly contraption. A young inventor named Ransom E. Olds scraped...
...bourgeoisie liked the colors. But the poor sculptors! The women were afraid the corners would catch the plumes in their hats." Few prospective buyers took notice of Laurens' experiments in wood and stone. In the '20s, Laurens began smoothing his angles and swelling his planes into ripe curves. "I felt I was drying out," he explains. "I wanted something more sensual. I wanted to do the things that laugh, above all what there is in a truly feminine woman. Cubism was too strict. I wanted to humanize." Trips to the Brittany sea-coast increased his affection for billowing...