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...told them his plan of action. He set the timing himself: he would make a nationwide broadcast to the people that night, personally take specific emergency anti-strike proposals to Congress the next day. The usually cool Missourian had his dander up. Late in the day he had a swim and his periodic physical checkup. Reported his physician: the President's blood pressure was "way up yonder...
Noisiest U.S. fish are the croakers, which cruise in racketing schools. They have special muscles to make their swim-bladders resonate. The hogfish grinds its teeth. The spot gives a raucous honk. The sea-catfish makes a noise like a tom-tom. The searobin cackles, while the toadfish toots a musical warning to leave its eggs alone...
They know that each spring, without fail, the harp seals (so called from their harplike back markings) swim to meet the Arctic ice floes, honeycomb them with blowholes, whelp near the holes in late February. In three weeks, the ravenous young cats weigh about 70 pounds, are prime young "whitecoats...
...Manhattan history. Two reasons for its success: Chief Choreographer George Balanchine. Prima Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, once his wife. Of 24 ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told in pantomime, or the applause-bidding entrechats of a star dancer which attract the matinee mobs...
...have been selected for their outstanding work on the team during the past season. Hoelzer, who broke the Freshman breaststroke record in the St. George's meet, will try for the laurels in the breaststroke while Norris is entered in the 1500-meter grind, and might possibly also swim the quarter-mile...