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There is plenty left to do; Arizona has some 50 kinds of lizards and 70 kinds of snakes. But the Gila monster remains his favorite, partly because so little is known about it. Hardly anyone, for instance, has ever seen a Gila monster egg or a baby Gila monster. Woodin hopes that his studies of the monster's habits will lead him to the secret nests where the monsters are hatched...
...relations. Said Christie: "I think I strangled her, that's when it must have happened. The intercourse, I mean." Medical evidence confirmed that he had sex relations with Victims 5, 6 and 7. The case for the defense had been made: Christie was that rare and unhappy human monster, a necrophile. With the evidence of a psychologist who swore that Christie's crimes were the result of "gross hysteria," the defense counsel aimed for a jury verdict of "Insane...
...disgust, switched to modern ("I could never manage romantic old graveyards"). He denounced many a U.S. public building: the National Gallery was a "death mask of an ancient culture," the Jefferson Memorial "an egg on a pantry shelf in . . . a geometric Sahara," Grant's Tomb a "ponderous, huge monster." With Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he turned Harvard into the top school of modern architecture...
...squeeze was put on the Air Force's $389 million heavy press program (TIME, March 3, 1952), designed to speed production of planes and cut costs. Contracts for seven of the 17 monster hydraulic presses, which would stamp out whole sections of aircraft and eliminate the welding of many small parts, were canceled...
...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (Warner) has a climactic sequence that seems to have been made to order for 3-D: a prehistoric monster tangled up in a Coney Island roller coaster. But the picture is a flattie, and unfortunately the writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed...