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...RUST HILLS...
...dust jacket of this amiable manual for layabouts asks of the prospective reader, "Why should you let Rust Hills tell you how to run your life?" But anyone acquainted with Hills' previous book, How to Do Things Right: The Revelations of a Fussy Man, knows that the author, far from being interested in running the reader's life, refuses even to run his own. Instead he walks it, as if it were an elderly dog. That is his pride, and he has earned it. As he explains, he was the fiction editor of Esquire and then...
Early this year, in a letter to a publisher, Green distilled some of his personal philosophy: "If you like what you're doing," he wrote, "and so long as you can physically and mentally function, my credo long has been that I'd rather wear out than rust out." Last week, shortly after writing his Page One story, Abel Green died of a heart attack at 72-doing what he liked...
...full practice since the Northeastern game on January 15. "I'm concerned mostly about their skating legs," Crimson coach Bill Cleary said yesterday. "We'll have only two full practices before Saturday, and we'll be working mostly on skating and passing, generally getting the rust...
...that is about ten times farther from the sun than the earth is, Sagan explains that Titan's atmosphere must be producing a significant "greenhouse effect"-that is, trapping more heat under its clouds than it radiates back into space. He speculates that those clouds may consist of rust-red organic compounds floating in a thick atmosphere of hydrogen, methane and ammonia coughed up by volcanic eruptions. Exposed to the sun's radiation, the gases could form into complex organic compounds, including sugars, purines and even amino acids. Such a mix of ingredients is akin to the primordial...