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...point of collision. At the same time, another spectacular event may well have occurred. The gases contained in the comet nucleus-particularly frozen ammonia and methane-would have spread through the atmosphere and the water, drastically changing the environment for primitive life. Then, in a swirling finale of son et lumière, atmospheric lightning would have ignited the mixtures of methane and air, filling the primordial skies with vast, spreading explosions...
...Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...
...comes to the America he wants, Berrigan sidles into a vision of "Paradise Park"-a Utopia straight out of the pixiest moments of The Greening of America: "Let the people enter, grow, run, fly, perambulate, consume, pull corks from, spread jams and peanut butter on, swim and sun in, et cetera, as the day is long...
...article last week in Turf World, Antony Parisella, director of mutuels at Belmont Park. said, "The difference between the ordinary bettor and a top gambler like Jules Fink or Larry Darby or S?m Lewin is that when they (Darby et. al.) lose they lose in small handfuls, but when they win they take the money away in wheelbarrows. The ordinary bettor just does not know...
...instead of the customary "Bonjour." The newspaper France-Soir ran a headline that was almost English: POMPIDOU-HEATH SMILING DAY. Heath, similarly, spoke in a language that was almost French when he arrived at Orly. London's Evening Standard slipped in a small tribute with the headline TED ET GEORGES: SUNSHINE FINALE. Meanwhile, at a blacktie dinner at the Elysée the first night, Pompidou toasted the Queen with a superb Dom Pérignon '64 champagne and noted: "Our views are sufficiently close that we may continue without pessimism...