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...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...
...vaudeville is all but extinct, it has, at least, a reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high prices and audiences queue up in multiple thousands. Strung out along a seven-mile waterfront promenade, Lancashire's Blackpool could well be called the world's foremost indoor resort. The salt air that attracts so many Britons to the edge of the Irish Sea is so often filled with raindrops that all comers are driven inside to watch everything from burlesque with pratfalls to ballet with waterfalls...
Like DNA, the RNA molecule has four different chemical groups-called bases -strung along it in sequences like the peaks and notches on a Yale kev. Biologists are convinced that the bases make up a genetic code of four letters-in roughly the same sense that the Morse code of telegraphy has three letters...
...most durable moths of Manhattan society, Nightlifer Hope Hampton, 60 (within an order of magnitude), poured herself into a yellow chiffon gown encrusted and strung with 41 clusters and strings of precious rocks borrowed from a New York jeweler. The spectacular finery, reportedly worth $1,000,000, and billed as the world's most costly dress, was designed by Couturiere Livia Sylva. Hope wore it on NBC-TV's quiz show, Play Your Hunch, where contestants guessed about the number of constellations in her high-carat caparison. Hunch's master of ceremonies, Merv Griffin, suggested...
...wedding. Glossing over the uproar caused by the abrupt switch in the best man for Fiancé Antony Armstrong-Jones, the government revealed lavish decoration plans for the wedding day. In honor of Princess Margaret Rose's second name, nearly a million fresh roses are to be strung on 60-ft. arches between the palace and Clarence House, the London home of the princess. From tall masts in Parliament Square will dangle metal baskets filled with pink hydrangeas and yellow marguerites; gold-tasseled banners, bearing the monograms M and A, are to flutter from 70 flagpoles along a route...