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Grade A lords & ladies, driving their Daimlers and hunting the fox halfway in time between two world wars, swarm all over this chatty, rambling book. Lavish Hampton Park in western England, home of one of Britain's richest, noblest families, is their weekend headquarters. There, hostess Lady Montdore whips them through their social paces and screens the bachelors who swarm around her daughter. Polly Montdore at 19 is more beautiful than all the priceless Hampton oil paintings put together-and colder than a Highlands wind. When the man of her choice is free to marry, she does...
Gloucester's mount got out of hand and had to be pulled back into line by two Guards officers. Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly. The King looked around anxiously as his daughter, trimly uniformed as a Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, brought her mount under control. The King walked over to congratulate Elizabeth on her horsemanship. The only other near-casualty reported was a drummer who fainted in the heat and lost his hat. His flanking comrades held him erect until the show was over...
...Male Swarming. Most mosquitoes are less direct. Their mating habits center around a curious custom that scientists call "swarming." Hundreds of males gather 'in a dim-lit space, whirling around & around one another, emitting a low hum. This, according to one theory, excites and attracts the females. Certainly any female that comes near the swarming males is never the same again. Some observers claim to have seen the same female join the same swarm repeatedly...
...plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track...
...northward flow is continuing. But this transfer of population is at best a temporary expedient. Island officials have a recurrent nightmare in which the U.S. undergoes a business recession and the Puerto Ricans, who as unskilled workers would be the first to be fired, swarm back to their homeland...