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...judges declared Ter-Ovanesyan the winner because his second-best jump was better than Boston's. After two meets, each of the old rivals had won once-and the total margin between them was a quarter of an inch...
...weighs 131 Ibs., personifies the bizarre, make-believe world that he dominates. "I've always wanted to stay in the background," he insists, primping his scraggly, Prince Valiant locks. But his attire could hardly be called a camouflage. Standard costume: stiletto-pointed boots with three-inch Cuban heels, tight pants, cloth cap, Davy Crockett pullover. He ignores the rude hoots that greet his progress down the street, confides that "in case of real trouble I could literally kill a guy. I've studied karate for years...
Modern plant research, writes German Biologist Stefan Vogel in Um-schau, has supplied a sudden flood of knowledge about the behavior of trap flowers. Their blossoms range from one-half inch to two feet in length. They lure insects to their traps by the unfloral smell that their osmophores give off during the "lure phase"; yet even the smells vary-from fecal-like, to cidery, to urine-like, to musky...
...sure as the snows of February, there are snowball fights at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Last week, when a five-inch fall set 200 undergraduates to pelting away across campus-cutting West Cumberland Avenue, it seemed at first like any free-for-all-but by the time this one was over, three men were dead. One was a passing truck driver, who got his skull fractured by an ice-cored snowball. Another truck driver, also under barrage, got so incensed that he grabbed a pistol from his cab and shot "I don't know where...
...beginning to concede that the prize was worth capturing. London Observer Critic Nigel Gosling, who had thought the black and white reproduction, first released by the National Gallery, suggested "something intellectual and contrived" about the painting, took it all back when he examined it in color. "Over every inch of the canvas the colors are laid on as lavish and delicate as the feathers on a tropical bird...