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...coupe 15 miles to her Newsday office. Winters, the Guggenheims move to their town house on Manhattan's East Side, and Alicia changes her Olds for a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. At least once a year she goes off alone to her six-room Georgia house near the Okefenokee Swamp, where she calmly shoos water moccasins into the water "because they can't bite from there." Every summer Publisher Patterson visits her sister Josephine Patterson Albright* at her ranch in Dubois, Wyo., largely so that she can be with her sister's two eldest children, Alice...
Walt Kelly seemed undisturbed about getting in over his political head. Said he: "I have been submerged for 41 years. After all, I'm a swamp character, and swamp waters run deep...
...Velvet Doublet, The Gauntlet) knows the value of a timely yank at the heartstrings. In his latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream too: he's going...
...President would not budge from these terms. Nor did he need to. The Philippine army, reinvigorated since Magsaysay took over, was scoring fresh victories. The dry season was setting in, allowing the troops to penetrate to the deepest Huk lairs, particularly the Candaba swamp which was Taruc's favorite refuge. A turning point had been reached: there were solid indications that the antirebel drive was sapping the morale as well as the armed strength of the hard-pressed enemy...
...magnetic moments of nucleii in physics. A biologist was working on slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from the Persian, and a sociologist on a study of modern radicalism. Today, the humanists are still holding strong despite the tendency of the scientists to swamp them. One is now informally attending the Law School to get background for medieval constitutional history. Another is trying to make some "connections between psychoanalytic theory, existentionalism, and currents in modern theological thought." An archeologist in the Near East, interested in Iranian archeology, is anxiously watching that country's political situation, while...