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...domestic excesses were also foremost in the mind of Congresswoman Bella Abzug when she convened her Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights and called CIA Director William Colby to the chair. Suffering coolly and patiently, Colby endured 5% hours of excoriation as Abzug ("What are you trying to hide, Mr. Colby?") angrily raked over ground turned up by the Rockefeller commission. During an earlier appearance, Colby had admitted that the CIA kept counterintelligence files on four members of Congress, including Abzug, who had become involved with people and causes abroad that interested the agency. This time Colby acknowledged that...
...Forest Service and Penn State University, Jones imported and planted carefully selected species of trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that you don't get poked in the eye." Today the farm is thick with...
Bruce sank when he made his debut. During his second test on water his hydraulic system exploded. "That shark," says Producer Brown, "was like owning a yacht. We had to dredge a place for it to rest, we had to park it, guard it, stroke it, hide it from the public." A special makeup man in scuba gear would plunge into the ocean to add more blood to Bruce's teeth and gums or administer a touch-up to his tender plastic tissue. Bruce's skin tended to discolor and deteriorate in the salt water...
Ranging in size from six inches to 60 feet, all shark species lack skeletons. Essentially they are masses of cartilage covered by a remarkably tough hide (in itself a nasty rasplike weapon in the larger species). Theirs is an indiscriminating appetite. Everything from a keg of nails to a 100-lb. sea lion has been found in shark entrails. The biblical Jonah was there too, today's marine scientists theorize. Sharks are condemned by nature to a life without sleep or even rest. The reason is that they lack the swim bladders of the bony fishes, which permit...
...hide his feelings, Galbraith has often put off the administration and some of his colleagues. In 1969 he was a leader of the liberal wing of the faculty in denouncing the administration after a student strike and a police bust. Galbraith's fans, like Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief, say that "as economic theory has gotten narrower he has provided a bridge to the real world." Others demur. Says Harvard Business School Lecturer Daniel Fenn: "I think his field has not primarily been Harvard. He has used it mainly as a base of operations. My feeling is that...