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...through an exotic bazaar in Beersheba, Israel, pert, 16-year-old Nina Roosevelt* spied the cutest souvenir ever, begged Grandma to bargain for it with the canny Bedouins. Obligingly, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt shelled out $77 for a scrawny baby camel (named "Duchess" by Nina), which, if Daddy approves, will stalk the Roosevelts' Hyde Park estate until it gets big enough to deserve permanent residence in any interested...
...University of Illinois, Associate Professor Earl R. Leng has developed a dwarf corn that he hopes will some day end farmers' worries from windstorm damage. The short stalk is also ideal for automated pickers. By crossing his dwarf corn with teosinte, a Mexican grass, he has also developed a stalk with 20 small ears all along the stalk. If he can increase the size of the ears, the corn of 1965 may well resemble a hat tree...
...Grisly Package. Belli's most noteworthy contribution to tort-trials is in his use of "demonstrative evidence," i.e., visual aids. He will take his skeleton, named "Elmer," into the courtroom and show the jury by experts' testimony exactly where plaintiff broke a bone, then stalk to his portable blackboard to draw diagrams of the accident scene. Often he chalks figures to justify the damages he is demanding-so much per hour for pain, so much for medical bills, so much in lost wages, etc., etc.-occasionally makes a deliberate mistake in addition, so as to let an alert...
Sociologists customarily stalk elephantine generalities in exotic latitudes-from the South Seas to the cold-water jungles of Manhattan. In Daedalus, Big Game Sociologist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman breaks form by potshooting in his own backyard: the academic world. Samples of his mixed bag: ¶ Although some students maintain "a posture of contempt for business and a belief that, in contrast, teaching offers integrity, the life of the businessman and the life of the professor have become less and less distinct. The professor is no longer to be regarded as a stuffy fellow. He has become...
...English history, admired for the pungent certitude with which he expresses himself and for his imaginatively disreputable wardrobe. A huge (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), slightly stooped man who is bald but manages to look shaggy in spite of it, he ambles into class apparently costumed to stalk moose, was once accused by Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, when they were both young instructors, of aging his sport coats in a manure pile. He has been known, on a winter day, to wear a neckpiece of red flannel underwear...