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...seven-year building because it comes down after seven years. It was originally built three or four years ago to hold commencement activities, and then they tried baseball and ind?? ????k in there. But they've stopped using it for baseball. It's made out of canvas and rubber compounds...
...lions at Thoiry, meanwhile, have become so bored with the million visitors who come to see them each year, with tearing apart rubber tires supplied by the viscount or with hunting rabbits that the prides think of little more than their passions. "The lovemaking record is held by a lion who had 64 couplings in one day -with the same lioness," La Panouse claims. When an understandably skeptical visitor asked, "Who counted?" the viscount replied, "One of the keepers. They don't have much to do all day long." Even if they are French cats, that kind of performance...
...proved some physical prowess by becoming expert in gymnastics, but his real world was all make-believe. Like Johnny Carson, a transplanted Nebraskan, young Cavett took up magic. He gave shows in his basement, and by the time he was a teenager, he was pulling rubber chickens out of his hat for pleasure and a fee before P.T.A. groups. He had his own weekly radio drama show on the local station while he was still in high school. He was living his show business fantasies in the highest style available to a boy, but that was not enough...
...second floor of Hoffman Lab, at the end of the hall, there is a set of unimposing double doors to which only five people in the world have the key. The only outside clue to what goes on behind those doors is a black rubber mat on the hall floor which reads MOON ROOM in large white letters. At first sight, the two laboratories behind the locked doors appear no different than any other geology laboratory. However, one of the labs contains a large floor safe to which only two of the original five scientists have the combination. This safe...
...playing a tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. "I thought another ship had hit us in the fog," said West, but when he rushed on deck he saw three men in wetsuits heading toward Scheveningen beach in a motor-powered rubber boat. West sped back to his microphone and shouted: "May Day, May Day, this is Radio Northsea. We are on fire. A bomb...