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AMONG the most despised of creatures is the slug, a night-crawling enemy of every gardener. But one scientist collects them, thinks his study might help man adapt himself to difficult environments such as outer space. See SCIENCE, Slug Time...
...customers have proved willing to pay $200 to $1,000, which Tinguely asks for his moving abstractions. But Tinguely has a new gadget, which harnesses one of his machines to a crayon or pen. When a slug is dropped in the slot, the machine traces circles, ellipses and swirls on a piece of paper. A friend is manufacturing the slugs, each marked "Good for One Tinguely." At his next exhibition, visitors will be invited to buy the slugs at perhaps 500 francs apiece. For a mere 5,000 francs more, Tinguely will consent to sign the result...
After his hug-slug-hug scrimmage in Moscow with Macmillan, Khrushchev turned up last week at the East German industrial capital of Leipzig to proclaim that what he wants is "peace, peace and more peace"-that it is "hotheads in the West" who threaten war by refusing to quit Berlin and sign a peace treaty with his puppet East German regime...
...nighttime westerns weekly v. 3⅓ in Britain, 10 hours of private-eye shows v. 5 in Britain. And by comparison with such U.S. cut-'n'-shoots as Peter Gunn (see below), the British children's favorite thriller, gentlemanly Fabian of Scotland Yard, rarely fired a slug from pistol or bottle. The British sociologists still saw much room for improvement: better dramas outside the dog-cowboy-detective formulas, more attention to girls (half the audience). Meanwhile, as the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra" put it: "The appalling mediocrity of most of the stuff that gets...
...Slug? In Louisville, Ohio, a man walked into the Beacon Finance Co., told a clerk he had business there but first wanted to borrow a nickel for a parking meter, went out with the nickel, soon returned and pulled a $900 stickup...