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Love is a kitten, a pleasant thing, a purr and a pounce. Chases a piece of string, a scratch and a mew a ball batted with a paw a sheathed claw...
...Clever Guests. When the first birds appeared some 130 million years ago, say the colonel and Zoologist Clay, they offered an "unoccupied ecological niche": i.e., a place where some organism might manage to scratch out a living. Almost at once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...
...reason to think that they are far behind. Midwives for an Age. One of the best hopes that the U.S. can forge ahead lies in the past performance of Fred Rentschler, who has probably done as much for U.S. aviation as anyone since the Wright brothers. Starting from scratch a quarter-century ago with fledgling Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., he transformed U.S. military and transport aviation with his air-cooled Wasp engine. In the late '20s and '30s, Wasps, Hornets and the famed Wright Whirlwind (which Rentschler had just produced) were the midwives for the birth...
...dusty outside," then resumes reading memos about engines. Money in the Bank. Fred Rentschler was taught to be single-minded by his father, George Adam Rentschler. Adam's father brought him to the U.S. from Germany when he was three. Orphaned at eleven, Adam had to scratch hard for every penny, scratched so hard that he eventually became a millionaire out of the foundry he started in Hamilton, Ohio. "Only two things are worth having," Adam always said, "money in the bank and pig iron in the plant...
Paul Blanshard has two bogeymen of almost equal fearsomeness: one dwells in the Kremlin, the other in the Vatican. It is hard to say which one makes his hackles rise higher, but each time he claws at Stalin he manages to scratch the Pope. His 1949 bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (168,000 copies) painted a terrifying picture of a totalitarian church at war with U.S. democracy. His new one is Communism, Democracy and Catholic Power. It enlarges on and reiterates his earlier theme, but something new is added: the Kremlin and the Vatican are really quarreling brothers under...