Word: stowaway
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...published in London next year. He has gone over the manuscript again and again, tearing up thousands of sheets of paper, never happy with the often hazy images that his memory has supplied. Also, he is supposedly working on a screenplay about an aristocratic steamship passenger and a female stowaway, intending to star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy. His last film, 1957-3 A King in New York (made in London), was a total critical failure and almost certainly put to death any serious desires...
...associate curator of arachnology, and one of the world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them pregnant females sitting by their stringy...
...Stowaways Inside. Chief source of U.S. concern about stowaway "exobiota" (extraterrestrial life) is famed Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg, 32, of Stanford. Lederberg is immensely nappy that the "blacksmiths" who fashion space hardware are still too clumsy to send manned expeditions to Mars or Venus. Crews that return from a foreign planet, says he, will be potential dangers to all life on earth. Though their ship may be sterilized inside and outside before re-entering the earth's atmosphere, it will be impossible to sterilize the men themselves. Like even the healthiest humans, the space travelers will...
...fourth race at New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the chalk players cheered as Miss Stowaway, the odds-on favorite, got away fast, ran easily, and finished under wraps. Few noticed that five furlongs back a 40-to-1 longshot called Plenty Papaya broke skittishly from the starting gate and lunged for the outer rail. Aboard the black two-year-old filly, Jockey Roy L. Gilbert, 22, a lanky kid from the mountains of eastern Kentucky, was pushing his hottest winning streak. Seven years away from his first job as a stable...
...Abdullah Doe in the Middle East can keep his fez on, 1958 will be the dizziest, busiest merry-go-round in European travel history." Nearly 700,000 voyaging Americans are about to make this breezy prophecy come true. An impressive number of these U.S. tourists will carry a stowaway-Temple Hornaday Fielding. He conies handily packaged in a fact-and opinion-crammed, hard-cover container called Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, 1958-59 (895 pp.; Sloane; $4.95). Annually revised since its '48 debut, Fielding's Guide has racked up growing sales (the publishers guard actual sales...