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...young ladies in question are the infamous belles of St. Trinian's, a gymslip brigade of teacher's pests who terrorize one of the seamier seminaries in Britain's Poison Ivy League. The little horrors were hideously hilarious when they first came squiggling and splotching from the pen point of Cartoonist Ronald Searle. They even had a certain roachy charm in their first two films. But now the joke is as moldy as the girls-theater owners will be well advised to put the fans...
...much the same nature. Underground shots are considerably safer. The U.S. has fired about half a dozen small tests in tunnels dug into Nevada mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard...
...break for the Russians because H-bomb ingredients (deuterium, lithium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and easy to get. Chances are that the Russians have turned most of their plutonium and U-235 into detonators for H-bombs. This should give them enough nuclear explosives to wreck or poison most of the earth...
...mantelpiece to urge a slow-moving salesman out of his atrophy. "Cash," says Robbins, "is getting to be passe for rewarding efforts. A lot of people want something they can see-and show off to other people." And then there are those who send trophies instead of poison-pen letters. One Marine officer, eager to express his opinion of a football referee, ordered a "Biggest Bonehead of the Year" trophy, and even supplied the bonehead: a souvenir Japanese skull, which Robbins gold-plated and suitably engraved. Another football referee, who was castigated for an outrageous yardage measurement, received a statuette...
...interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap and gun. "There's no trouble catching them," says E. A. Ellis, secretary of the Norfolk Naturalists' Trust. "The coypu is mentally slow. Once caught he just waits for death, not fighting but moaning...