Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work dismembering the body. In the feast that followed, the four managed to devour all of the deceased save the head and one leg, which they put aside for the next meal. It proved a mistake. A young boy found the head, ran horrified to tell his parents, and the police were called. Uganda, whites and blacks alike, was shocked: the ceremonial eating of a bit of human flesh is still not uncommon in Uganda, but wholesale cannibalism as such is unheard...
...reason for all the excitement. When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously. But Venus has an abundant atmosphere, and so a star that it covers fades slowly, its light changing and diminishing like the setting sun. Careful observation is sure to tell volumes about the Venusian atmosphere, its density at various heights, its temperature and chemical makeup...
...winds blowing toward its center, the Weather Bureau has devised a balloon that keeps itself floating in air of a specified barometric pressure. Released from a hurricane-scouting aircraft, it should follow along at a constant barometric pressure, trapped in the eye like the birds, broadcasting radio signals that tell the hurricane watchers how fast the storm is moving, its pressure, etc. A second gadget still under test is a big, inflated sphere that will ride the surface ocean waves in the eye, broadcasting similar information at sea level. Still a third promising device: a camera-carrying rocket that flies...
...Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). June Havoc, who ought to know, plays an ex-vaudevillian married to the owner of a mountain beanery, whose daughter is afraid to tell her that she has secretly married and wants out of show business...