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Durrell made side trips to Malaysia and New Zealand, but the dramatic high point of the book is his meticulously observed birth of a kangaroo in southeastern Australia: it emerges as a pinkish, gleaming blob no longer than the first joint of a man's little finger, and is deposited on the mother's tail. Practically an embryo, the baby must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent...
...they all played their college foot ball in the Southeastern Conference -the roughest, toughest, best college conference in football. The S.E.C. has ten regular members plus Georgia Tech, which technically classifies as an inde pendent, though it plays about half its games against conference schools. Of those eleven teams, five ranked last week among the top 13 colleges: Alabama (No. 4), Georgia Tech (5), Florida (7), Tennessee (10) and Georgia...
...evidence to the contrary. Big Ten superiority passed from the realm of fact to that of fancy long before the 1966 season. If you will use the same criterion by which Midwestern football came to be regarded as superior (national rankings, intersectional game victories), you will find that the Southeastern Conference has earned the distinction of being America's toughest league...
...foot ball scholarships for freshmen each year -as compared with 50 for the University of Texas. They also are forbidden to "redshirt" prospects-putting them on a five-year program, keeping them out of action as sophomores in order to beef them up. Redshirting is common practice in the Southeastern Conference, the Southwest Conference, the Pacific Eight, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Midwest's Big Eight...
...guesses that she soon got hopelessly lost in a tropical storm and turned the Electra north and west, away from her destination. By calculating the Electra's speed and fuel consumption, Goerner figures that the plane must have crash-landed near the beach of Mili atoll in the southeastern Marshall Islands. It was from that place, he says, that Earhart cranked out SOS messages on the plane's emergency radio. This, Goerner believes, accounts for the fact that a number of radio operators reported picking up messages from the downed plane at about this time...