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...hero, a jet-propelled Gulliver named Ulysse Mérou, lands his spaceship on a distant planet of the Betelgeuse system in the earth year 2502 and finds himself m a perfect replica of earthly society turned upside down. Men and women run naked through the wilds, hunted by beautifully tailored apes. Some are shot for sport, some are captured for scientific study. They are sent into trial space orbits, stuck in zoos, or utilized in medical experiments because they are, after all, physiologically very like the apes themselves. Ape scientists, in fact, believe that apes evolved coevally with...
...horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch on to the trick of piling boxes on one another to get the tasty reward offered by the simian scientists. Mérou, however, dumfounds the experts with...
...first game tonight, it will be Clarkson's solidity against the flashy brilliance of Colby. It seems unlikely that 100-point man Rou Ryan can score enough to match the output of the well-balanced Clarkson six, and the Mule defense is erratic...
...question was given greatest emphasis when Steve Allen launched into a protracted fund-raising "rou- tine." "Who will give one hundred dollars for peace?" Allen asked, "those people willing to contribute please raise their hands." Then, attempting to collect donations from $50 to $1.00, he teased the crowd with such phrases eas "a city of this affluence," "an audience as intelligent as this," and "show your interest in peace...
...American girl, and any bystander would guess that her soul is as spotless as her nylon underwear is sure to be. Carl Dickson, a young ad man with thoughts that seem old for his age, has decided to marry Joan because, at 26, he is already suffering from the roué's punishment: boredom with compulsive conquest, disgust with predictable passion...