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...plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which it lives; another fish mimics weeds even to the point of having white dots which look like worm spots...
...Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), a prizewinning bestseller, was a vivid picture of life in the starving south Italian town to which Levi was exiled by Mussolini in 1935. His second book, Of Fear and Freedom, a rambling philosophical essay on man's fate, was as diffuse and shapeless as Eboli was graceful and compact...
Meanwhile, in Brighton, officials were battling a comparatively tiny but potentially far deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent...
...paddy field in Korea last week, a squad of G.I.s fresh from San Francisco got their first look at a dead North Korean Communist soldier and his battle equipment. It was not an impressive sight. The enemy's uniform was a shapeless affair of sleazy green cloth, with string pockets crudely sewed onto it to hold camouflage of leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle...
...like the Vietnamese." His rifle was propped against the seat beside him. Every mile along the road a French fortress of brick and bamboo dominated the countryside. Between them we passed patrols of bearded men, four or five in a group, wearing jungle-green uniforms and broad-brimmed, shapeless felt hats, snaking in single file along the hillside...