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Died. Barnum Brown, 89, curator emeritus of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...
...Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker but is really that rare thing in English letters-a philosophical novel. The point may be overlooked because the hero, a teen-age monster, tells all about everything in nadsat, a weird argot that seems to be all his own. Nadsat is neither gibberish nor a Joycean exercise. It serves to put Alex where he belongs-half in and half out of the human race...
...result, said Hoffmann, the United States' desision-making monopoly within NATO, may be challenged. "What might emerge is a three-headed monster of the United States, the European Six, and Great Britain playing the role of Hamlet in between...
...Legend of Lobo. Walt Disney, who thinks that wolves are really nicer than people, tries to prove it by telling the story of a 150-lb. monster who terrorized New Mexico in the 1890s. Disney is sort of crying sheep, but the kids won't care...
...stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...