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Practical Chore. The chemists used every kind of modern apparatus as soon as it became available, but progress was slow. Then some of them turned to X-ray diffractions and called on an IBM 7090 computer to interpret their results. Finally, they found the long-sought formula which is unlike that of any other known poison. Then a group of chemists at Stanford University led by Professor Harry S. Mosher found the same poison in egg clusters of California newts. Both U.S. and Japanese chemists are now trying to figure out why such distantly related animals as fish and newts...
Japanese chemists are also hard at work on a more practical chore: finding an antidote for tetrodotoxin poisoning. But success may not be applauded by risk-loving gourmets. When a bottle of antitoxin is standing in every restaurant, the dangerous fugu will have become just another fish; fugu roulette will have lost its excitement, and something unique will have vanished from Japanese culture...
...their several ways, from their several stations, and to a multiplicity of mailing lists, the nation's famous and its merely notorious dealt with that common joy-become-chore of the season: choosing and dispatching a Christmas card...
Everything will have to go right for the Crimson to spring an upset. The main problem, of course, is Kimball; Merle McClung will guard him man-to-man, and both McClung and Barry Williams will have the difficult chore of competing with the 6 ft., 8 in. senior for rebounds. The rebounding duel between Williams and Kimball should be one of the highlights of the game...
...other two stories are a chore to read. In "In the Autumn the Boy" Gail Borden develops a cumbersome word-joining technique to describe in nine pages what would have been vivider in one: "Crippled vision blurs, shuffles sideways, sees what seems caught form crushed within heathaze...