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...result of his decision, one day last week Ed McCully, 28, was standing-with four other young Americans of similar background, age and motivation-on a sweltering riverbank at the Amazon's headwaters. Across the water they could see the green-hell jungle, where lurked the raw material of their mission: 2,000 members of the savage Auca Indian tribe...
...other hand, if floods were included like hailstorms as a standard risk in all extended-coverage policies, and the cost were spread among all property-owners, premiums would be many times the cost of present insurance. The man who lived on a hill would be subsidizing the riverbank dweller...
Some 20 years before he sat on a sunny riverbank spinning the tale of Alice in Wonderland for the benefit of three entranced little girls, the man who became immortal as Lewis Carroll wrote these lines for his brother and sister (aged seven and five) at a rectory at Croft. During the years that followed, as he grew up to become a clergyman, a teacher and a mathematician, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson kept his alter ego, Carroll, well hidden from disapproving adult eyes. Carroll the storyteller preferred to save his voice for only the very young. In this slim...
Flocks of robins flew up from the sycamore branches. A male and female American merganser were flushed from the riverbank and swooped over the valley. Purple finches bustled in the branches. The call of the titmouse was clear from the field. The spice bushes were in bud, and along the banks of the Potomac the willows were greening. Red maple was already painting the woods. From the bog water in the old unused canal came the song of peeper frogs...
...body or mind, who dig the ores or make the metals . . ." De Diego's prizewinner (one of 500 entries) was a brilliantly colored fantasy called Activity Across the River, which showed a group of unworldly creatures working on a great mass of red and blue machinery along a riverbank. De Diego got the idea watching the Staten Island shipyards from a ferry...