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...days after the end of World War II, a slender, 27-year-old captain in the Army Air Forces named John Birch was kitted in China by a band of Communists. Sixteen years later, John Birch lives on as the rallying symbol of the archconservative, anti-Communist John Birch Society. Yet Birch himself remains a shadowy figure. Who was he? How did he live...
Salvinia auriculata is a native of tropical America, and no one knows for sure how it got to Africa. One theory is that a 19th century missionary imported it to ornament a pond. The fern's hairy, half-inch-long leaves grow in pairs on a slender stem. Each broken-off bit of stem can start a new colony. Great islands of weed drift around Kariba Lake, entangling boats and clogging harbors. Fishery experts had been counting on Kariba to support an important fishing industry, as other African lakes do, but under Salvinia's thick floating mats...
...clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing about this suave swine was that he would occasionally, in a contemptuous Freudian way, massage the nape of his socialite mother's neck with slender, manicured hands. Edge really goes for hands-only last year it disposed of a sadistic multiple strangler called Big Frank, who had an enormous pair of them. For his services to soap, Big Frank's hands were cast in plaster as if they were Stokowski...
...crises, as usual, is Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 74, relentlessly determined that the Lavon Affair be settled in his way or not at all. Because of rigid government censorship, nobody ever knew exactly what the Lavon Affair was all about. All that was known surely was that slender, intense Pinhas Lavon, 56, was forced from his office as Defense Minister in 1955 for his alleged responsibility for a "disastrous affair" that went awry...
Seeking Sikhs In the compound of Amritsar's Golden Temple, holy of holies to India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, long lines of tall, bearded and turbaned Sikh men and slender Sikh women passed slowly by a small wooden...