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...course and behavior of the Van Allen belts of radiation that surround the earth is still iffy, reported Iowa's Professor James A. Van Allen, who discovered them. The upper belt, which fluctuates wildly in intensity, is probably made of charged particles coming from the sun. The narrow inner belt, he suspects, contains protons and electrons that are decay products of neutrons created by the impact of cosmic rays hitting atoms in the atmosphere. It has not changed appreciably, he said, during the last two years...
...hardly an angry young menace, but he might be mistaken for a highly comic younger brother of Play wright John Osborne's backward-scowling Jimmy Porter. At 18 or so. he is a mortician's clerk in a scruffy little Yorkshire town, so benumbed by his surround ings that he fancies he has caught an entirely new disease, Fisher's Yawn. When his earthbound parents mulishly refuse to, understand his plans for becoming a scriptwriter in London, he retaliates in his imagination by inventing a set of properly sophisticated, London-based par ents, including a frightfully...
Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated by Vladimir Kean and Franz Kuhn. A wry, readable 16th century Chinese tale about a virtuous widow and the Boccaccian crew of thieves, pimps and "Powder-faces" who surround...
...17th century pirate "Admiral" Nutt defied the Royal Navy; where the smuggler Mr. Thomas Benson, M.P., fired on all ships that did not dip their flags; and where a family called Heaven once ruled a kingdom of the same name. The islanders still point to the treacherous rocks that surround them and gleefully tell of the time a great galleon of the Spanish Armada went aground, or of where His Majesty's proud new battleship Montagu piled up in 1906. Aside from "bluebottles"-the island's name for tourists-the Lundyites do not like outsiders...
...Etruscan says, "It's true that you Romans are generous and merciful. But you go about your deeds of kindness so ungraciously that you seem more brutal than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books...