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...Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
...most interesting moment will come on the night of Oct. 20 when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
...Gentlemen, this has been a wonderful experience! We're really going to pioneer in this field." The mayor was inaugurating the first scheduled passenger service in the U.S. of a Hovercraft, the British-designed flying machine that rides above the ground on a cushion of compressed air, can skim both land and sea (provided there are no major hills or waves) at a brisk 85 m.p.h. This one had just floated over San Francisco Bay, scooted up a ramp without breaking stride, and roared on across the Oakland airstrip to its destination. The scheduled shuttle between the Oakland...
...Amazon is like an inland sea. It holds nearly one-fifth of all the fresh water in the world. In places it is so wide that a steamer sailing up the middle cannot keep both banks in sight. Even 800 miles inland, dolphins arch through its surface and cormorants skim its waves. For Author Ogburn, the River Sea is both setting and protagonist for a rousing, sprawling, splendidly old-fashioned story of high adventure and romantic idealism...
...eggs; no danger here." But as for a chocolate malted and mocha layer cake, "150 grams!-jamais de la vie!" The "grisly alternative" of a reducing diet is listed in terms of defatted French dressing, vegetable-burger ("a dry, scratchy mass of grated carrots, soybeans, daisy petals, etc."), skim milk and dry toast...