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Hematologists have long sought ways to prevent the formation of dangerous and possibly fatal blood clots. First there was heparin, extracted from the livers and lungs of beef cattle. Then came coumarins, made from rotted sweet clover. Now some British researchers believe they have found what they want in the venom of a Malayan pit viper, close kin to American rattlesnakes...
...fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry is, not surprisingly, in clover. Near Kamsack, Sask., Farmer Paul Strilaiff farms the homestead where his Russian immigrant parents settled at the turn of the century. He has done so well sending wheat back to Russia that last fall he walked into the office of a Kamsack implement dealer, placed an order for four swathers, six tractors...
Biology says that the longer the nurturing period, the higher the species of animal. The quirks in that idea appeal to British-born Novelist Gavin Lambert. He first explored protracted puberty among starlets in Inside Daisy Clover, a barbed novel that Hollywood made into a mushy movie. Now Lambert satirizes the upper-class British male, alternately pampered and scourged in nursery and public school. His hero, Sir Norman Lightwood, is the invincible innocent, a descendant of Paul Pennyfeather who goes unarmed in a world of "pimps and pitiless roughnecks...
...about 9:20 p.m., during the proposal scene of "Inside Daley Clover," a theatre employee stepped to the front of the audience and requested it to leave quietly but quickly...
While you're at it, stick around for Inside Daisy Clover, the most underrated picture in--well, in weeks: underrated not because it's so good, but because it has received such a phenomenal overkill from the Natalie Wood-haters, a sorry lot who probably haven't seen the picture anyway...