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Together, the two children play at the reality they know best: sudden and violent death. Solemnly, at "an old mill presided over by an ancient owl, they build a little cemetery. There they first bury Paulette's puppy, then a chick, a mole, a ladybird, a rat, a lizard and a cockroach (which Michel impales on a pen while imitating the terrifying sound of a German dive bomber). They even steal crosses from a real cemetery for their animal burial ground...
...found just what he was looking for. Young first offenders, as he wrote last week, were locked up in filthy, verminous cells with second and third offenders, dope addicts and sexual degenerates. One aged psychopath, who screamed all night, four days after his release committed suicide by taking rat poison. For exercise, his cellmates' chief amusement was to strip to the waist and beat one another black & blue. Young prisoners staged "aspirin" parties to get "high" by grinding up aspirin and tobacco which they rolled into cigarettes. Not satisfied, they took a fling with dope, buying it through...
...short glossary of Colgatisms, with corresponding English definitions: You're out of it You are a social dud You've had it You're drunk You've gotton the green banana Your data called up and broke the data Three-dollar bills People who are "out of it" Sack rat A person who likes to sleep Tunk An all-male jolly-up To bomb To study Smooth up Put on decent-looking clothes The 'Case Syracuse, N.Y. site of a bloody and traditional football game Plush courses Gut courses Ace Good fraternity prospect
Queen Victoria. For most well-born Victorians, says Ponsonby, the Victorian era was a "serene, unhurried existence." For the old Queen's courtiers, it was a rat race. Protocol ruled, for example, that when the Queen took an airing in her pony chair she must meet nobody on the way, and as nobody in the household could foretell what route she intended to take, her stately advance over the royal gravel was marked by the incessant scuttling of courtiers racing for cover...
What lies in the still more distant future for Merck & Co.? One of the most forward-looking experiments now under way at Merck is designed to measure fatigue. A laboratory rat is placed in a tank of water, and with each stroke of a foreleg, he sets off a series of complex electronic devices to record his acceleration. From this, Merck scientists hope to learn more about muscular fatigue in general, and how it can be influenced by hormones. Beyond that, neither George Merck nor his 425 scientific and medical researchers can tell, and probably they would not if they...