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...with their planes, their wives, children and cousins. Colonel The Ban Huu squeezed two passengers into the second seat of his A-37 fighter and headed for Thailand. Colonel Dang Duy Lac, a transport pilot, somehow piled 200 passengers into his C-130 for the flight to Utapao. Lieut. Tring Thiet Thach, 24, who escaped from Danang two months ago by swimming to a Vietnamese navy ship, took off from Tan Son Nhut in the midst of Communist rocket attacks...
...will be pleasant to discover that each of us has inculcated the stereotyped career woman's mode. It seems impossible for us to imagine that we would allow that to happen to ourselves; already we cringe at the mention of the term "Radcliffe bitch." But we are not really tring to dissolve the impression. Instead, we are scurrying about in college, developing career goals only, when we could be developing friendships and strength within the context of asserting the potential that we know we have, and that has been denied in other women for centuries...
...Einstein of siphonapterology was the Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, second son of the first Baron Rothschild of Tring. He was charmed by fleas while still a student at Cambridge, and pursued them the rest of his life. Says Dr. Hubbard: "The Tring Museum ... at Tring, Hertfordshire, has become the flea center of the world." Flea lovers from all over report their discoveries and send offerings (fleas) to Tring...
Died. Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, 69, head of the English branch* of the potent European Jewish banking family; at Tring Park, Hertfordshire, England. Baron Rothschild eschewed banking, but became one of the world's greatest naturalists. In 1932, financially embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...
...skins, stuffed but unmounted, have been coming to rest in the Museum during his absences this year. A nature-loving youngster named Lionel Walter Rothschild began collecting them in England half a century ago. Coming of age in 1889, he founded a zoological museum on his ancestral estate at Tring, Hertfordshire. No bait for birds, the Rothschild gold was lure enough to set men snaring them in the trees, brush, jungles, marshes of all the earth. Bit by bit the hauls of famed ornithologists and obscure amateurs found their way to Tring, gave it what many experts regard...