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Ardrey wants to adjourn the biological debate by accepting the territorial principle as a key to the understanding of man and as a solution to all his behavior problems. Why does the Russian collective farmer only listlessly till state soil? Because, says Ardrey, the dispossessed planarian worm lost his zest for life and slipped this attitude into the evolutionary stream untold millions of years...
...deep in mud, the correspondent pushed doggedly ahead into Viet Cong territory with a U.S. Marine reconnaissance patrol. Later he was up and at them with the Green Berets near Pleiku, then hopped aboard a helicopter to participate in a 1st Cavalry airborne assault landing. "He moves like a worm in hot ashes," said an admiring U.S. officer, but that came as no news to the folks at home. The newsman was eye-patched Moshe Dayan, Israel's former chief of staff come to a war as a correspondent for a Tel Aviv paper. And as one soldier...
...clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells the home truth about the Norwoods of the world whose lives are one long journey to nowhere...
James McCormack, LL.D., board chairman and chief executive officer, Communications Satellite Corp. Like the forehanded avian who catches the worm, you are the Early Bird who catches the rewards of intercontinental communications to the benefit of all nations...
...love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through...