Word: snails
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...York authorities were at first unable to identify the Central Park snail, because part of the American Museum of Natural History's reference collection of mollusks is on loan here at Harvard. The golf ball-sized shells were later attributed to the common American fresh water group, "Viviparus conectoides...
...plump-armed girl won top honors at the 1945 Carnegie exhibition of U.S. painting. Three years ago, Guston turned his back on easy success, joined the abstractionist ranks. His latest exhibition in a Manhattan gallery features huge canvases thinly blotched with pale colors, and greyish ribbons of paint trailing, snail-like, over slush-hued backgrounds. His sketch for the exhibition catalogue, an apparently random doodle of short, jerky dashes, is a fair sample of the new Guston. His reason for the change: "I was unhappy...
...carrier which the Air Force ballyhoos as the nation's biggest deterrent to the Russians. Of the 147, only 87 are in condition to fly; the other 60 are squatting in factories, undergoing a $2,500,000 modernization job. New ones are rolling off production lines at a snail's-pace five per month...
...pattern of war in Korea last week: small-scale skirmishing, punctuated by a few violent flurries where larger units met. Screening their buildup for a new offensive, the Chinese and North Koreans slowed down the cautiously probing Eighth Army to a snail's pace or stopped it altogether...
...Korea, Old sent a few sample shipments during stopovers in Hawaii and Japan. But his snail searches really paid off when he began exploring the zoological possibilities of the battle zone. ("Hunting for snails and so forth is a wonderful thing for guys like that," explains one Smithsonian curator. "Gets their minds off the bullets whizzing around...