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...zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump. A man up to a grasshopper's hop-to-length standards could clear a five-story building, or bound the length of a football field in three jumps...
Besides the fascination of these athletic feats, the grasshopper gives the zoologist other good reasons for study. Plagues of locusts (shorthorn grasshoppers) can still endanger the food supply of millions. Knowledge of the nervous system that fires the grasshopper's jumping muscles may lead to an effective insecticide...
Quicklime Kisses. Author Durrell, 45, is a poet and wanderer who was born in India of Irish parents, as was his zoologist brother Gerald (My Family and Other Animals-TIME, April 15). His novel, The Black Book, published in Paris in 1938, was hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction." Unfortunately, Justine's most effective moments are not those of the novelist but of the poet. The evocation of Alexandria in singing, interpolated paragraphs has more reality than...
...These were about the last words heard by the crew of the research vessel Atlantis before casting off last spring from the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution on a voyage to trace currents in the Atlantic. They were shouted at dockside by tall (6 ft. 1 in.), intense Harvard Zoologist William Edward Schevill...
Young Gerry, already a budding zoologist, was a bit of a hellion in this demi-paradise, but only because of his avid scientific urge to bring all the island fauna home. There was the day brother Leslie I went upstairs to bathe and found two snakes in the tub, and the day brother Larry started to light a cigarette from a matchboxful of scorpions. Gerry had been studying the scorpions' mating dance. The rest of the family had their own little idiosyncrasies to which, as his title suggests. Author Durrell pays his amused and amusing respects...