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...dull season of summer TV replacements, one new show last week was giving televiewers a pleasant tingling in the funny bone. The program: Mr. Peepers (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC), a weekly half hour devoted to the mild misadventures of a frail, bespectacled little high-school science teacher, played by Funnyman Wally...
Besides all their other work, the group held seminars to bone up for their trip. They began by studying India, but on the advice of the Indian embassy they soon switched to learning more about the U.S.; that is what the Indians would ask about. They combed local libraries and began tutoring themselves in subjects that might interest their Indian contemporaries: federal v. states' rights, U.S. foreign policy, capitalism v. Communism, racial problems in the U.S., the Korean question...
Poor Aldebaran Flood. She is beautiful (if one admires a face of "grey bone with a coral gash across it"), and she could paper Piccadilly with the receipts from her bestselling novel, Bells on Her Fingers. But Aldebaran is a child of fate-the "blood guilt" of her ancestors keeps "working itself out," and she "can't help being passionate about anything to do with colored people...
...Dear Boy." Maxwell knew nothing whatever about the basking shark. He fired more than 300 light machine-gun bullets into its hide-without apparent effect. Intrigued by such a doughty creature, Maxwell began to bone up on it. He found that though the basking shark's liver is known to contain hundreds of pounds of valuable oil, no one had much else to say about the great fish. Here, in short, was a veteran's dream, "an unexplored field, an amazing blank upon the . . . map of the world's natural history...
...Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak. I held on maybe five seconds, and he straightened the hook...