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...Museum of Comparative Zoology (top right) an undergraduate peers up at the skeleton of a 50-foot sperm whale, while a young resident of Boston (top left) looks with some uneasiness at the worldly remains of a gorilla. At the left are two Peruvian mummies photographed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Below are samples of the ruins at Copan, Honduras-probably the best known example of Mayan culture at its palmiest...
...provincial government of Formosa has increased its independence, until today there are only 12,000 employees in the national government v. 113,000 in the provincial government. Except for Foreign Affairs and the Defense Ministry, most of the national ministries, their functions duplicated by provincial departments, are only skeleton organizations with nothing to do but plan for the day of The Return...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...
There is, for instance, the one about the medical student who, during a murder scare, takes a ride on a crowded bus with a bulky package that proves, amid screams and general pandemonium, to contain a skeleton. There is the portentous purchase of the first stethoscope: "No, no. I think that's a little old for you, sir. What about this one? . . . Oh, yes. That's very much more you, sir. Comfy? Comfy?" There is the usual lecherous intern (named Benskin and known as "the ravishing reindeer") and the redheaded night nurse ("You succulent starched uniform with...
Last week, in the midst of Bangkok's frenetic preconference housecleaning, the Phibun government did its best to remove the skeleton from Ananda's closet by executing three Siamese vaguely convicted of "complicity" in his murder. The three were the late King's pages, Busya Patamasirind, 50, and Chit Singhaseni, 44, who discovered the body, and the King's former secretary, Chaliew Pathumros, who had been fired a month before the King's death. At 5 o'clock one morning last week, fortified with a final bottle of orange squash apiece, the three were...