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...everything up. Under the circumstances, it is a reasonably unwise thing to do, and she pays for it, lying moaning for a few days in a Toronto apartment while her friends move on to San Francisco for another gig. Duke, meanwhile, goes to pieces, athletically, and the Maple Leafs stagger downward in the NHL standings to the point where they must defeat the Vancouver Canucks in the season's final game to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs...
...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...
...Sidman, who was the first to apply the reassembly technique to brain cells, is now experimenting with a special variety of laboratory-produced mice called "reelers." A genetically caused "wiring" defect in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex of the reelers' brains impairs their coordination so completely that they stagger like drunks whenever they try to walk. Remarkably, when the brain tissue was taken from fetuses that had just developed the defect, Sidman's cells reorganized themselves in the same curious pattern...
Savage Squeeze. The year-round plan also spreads the load that children put on museums and public libraries. When the stagger system begins at the high school next July, it should keep down the number of idle, trouble-prone teenagers who tend to congregate on the streets during the warm months. Says Thomas Mandeville, father of a Valley View pupil: "The kids used to get bored with summer and restless with the long school year. Breaking it up is good for them. It's good for us too." Most instructors have willingly given up their usual summer vacations...
With Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Forster was a part of the elite Bloomsbury Group, where the world of intellect perched to watch the world of men stagger and fall. Everyone called him Morgan, and of those that knew him, he was loved by most...