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...vapor over the jungle going to vanish so soon. Every side of the dispute has a point to make, and every side will continue to make it with relentless enthusiasm until someone's bullets clear up the whole situation in the hearty manner of the old school...
...strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam with a pet crocodile. Once he came upon a lion about to give the coup de grace to an antelope, spoke sharply and stared the lion back into the bush...
Other builders, notably William Zeckendorf, have seen the dream of a Grand Central City vanish before the hard realities of finance, but Wolfson neatly turned the trick. He already has all the capital needed to start building: $25 million from City Centre Properties, Ltd., one of Britain's largest real estate organizations. On May 1, Wolfson's Diesel Construction Co. will begin demolishing the six-story building that stands on the site...
After reading about dolphins in your Jan 4 issue, my students' and my own doubts about Pliny the Elder's story of the tame dolphin* that carried a boy around and out to sea and back. and romped and gamboled with other boys in the waves, should vanish. Now we can all believe in flying saucers...
...ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian workmen in 1965, the island and its temple may vanish beneath a second lake created between the two dams...