Word: shrimps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those who wait for Communism to change, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev crowed not long ago with a bravado that impressed much of the world, "might better wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." The eerie sound that penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...
...important because not all of the movie could be shot at the real reef in the Bahamas. The group used Marineland's tanks, for instance, to photograph the birth of 200 sea horses from their father's brood pouch. This sequence, together with those of octupus courtship, the pistol shrimp's theft of an arrow crab's meal, and the molting of a spiny lobster's skin-skeleton somehow make a whole...
...Cambridge autumnal phenomenon--the lush full beard--has been suffering lately from the kind of neglect that springs from sowing a field too heavily with wheat. But we broached this subject once to a Student Council member, whose avocation is Marine Biology. He thought we were talking about freshwater shrimp, lectured us for some minutes in off-the-record fashion about the cusine at During Park, and concluded with a prepared statement about Council endorsement of private enterprise...
India's hotels in New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay are on a par with the Western world's finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...
...Conductor Johnson and Music Teacher Perso. Secrets was scaled down to a trim 23 minutes, highlighted by The Ballad of Mort, the Whale, Lobster Dante, Ballet of the Octopus and Sea Horse Gallop, a tap dance in 6/8 time, as well as Susan Freiberg's Minuet of the Shrimp. The local critics disdained to cover the premiere, but Conductor Johnson thought Sea Secrets good enough to be shown to a music publisher. Said he: "It is beautiful in its whimsicality...