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NEXT to their precious cargo of rocks and lunar samples, the most important souvenir brought home from the moon by the Apollo 15 astronauts was nearly two miles of film. Eagerly developed by NASA technicians in Houston last week, the first photographs from man's fourth lunar landing added extra luster to the achievements of Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. During their lunar visit, the astronauts demonstrated that they were remarkably sensitive-and even artistic-photographers...
...copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral," as well as a large shark's fin that one of his friends, a vicar, had to lug all the way home to Nuremberg. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito bit him when he ventured into the salt marshes of Zeeland to draw yet another marvel?a dead whale...
...built for basketball and known as Veruschka. In Rome she went to the première of the film Veruschka, Poetry of a Woman with its writer/director, Franco Rubartelli. The movie, originally a token of their long great-and-good friendship, now seems to have become more of a souvenir. After the show was over, he left with another model and she with another friend...
...apprentice and slowly immerse himself in the ways of thievetry, lechery, and general debauchery-only partially against his will. He is extorted by Jonathan Wiold, the Thief-Taker General (Peachum in Gay's play), ends up in Newgate Prison, escapes, is recaptured, hanged, then torn to pieces by souvenir hunters. Campbell's play is episodic, fast-moving, and filled with murky black dialogue. Senelick has expanded upon the episodic format of the text, so that time and the fairly simple plot are frequently interrupted by little extrapolative scenes. This is a hazardous technique, for such material must have an independent...
...Souvenir Worth Keeping. That evening, though, really belonged to the livelier old bones of Atlanta's Henry Louis Aaron. In the first inning, he lined Giant Pitcher Gaylord Perry's first pitch off the right centerfield fence for a stand-up double. Next time up, when Perry tried to jam him with a high inside fastball, Hammerin' Hank hit a 350-ft. drive that sailed over the leftfield wall and caromed back onto the playing field. After retrieving the ball, Third Base Umpire Paul Pryor was presented with a card that read: "I caught Hank Aaron...