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...theater heiress originally from Seattle, whom he had met in New York in 1951 after his separation from Bobo and Jeannette's from her third husband. The only thing Jeannette seemed to have in common with Bobo was blonde hair. She is tall, matronly and dignified behind thick glasses. It was a quiet romance, and they were married in a sedate ceremony in 1956 at Hayden Lake, Idaho...
...snowy thatch and frosty eyes behind thick rimless glasses made him look like a crusty old literary lion. In fact, David Leo Lawrence, former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, was one of the shrewdest, most powerful political bosses of modern times; indeed, until his death last week at 77, he had spent every waking day of his adult life as a professional politician...
...bouncy little man in Moscow's Red Square last week acted much as many tourists do, gawking at the Kremlin's towers through his thick, hornrimmed glasses, praising Russian hospitality and greeting every Ivan he could find with a breezy "I'm from London. How are you?" The visitor was British Foreign Secretary George Brown, 52, making his first trip to the Soviet Union to discuss with Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko a peace plan for Viet Nam and the problems of nuclear proliferation. Brown did not get far with the Russians...
...then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when the ice nearby is seven inches thick The system, which had been tried experimentally by the Navy, was first used commercially as far back as 1958 by the Harbor Marine Center in Cos Cob, Conn., initially just to keep ice from accumulating around the dock pilings. By chance, a few boats were left in the water...
...must drag itself blindly up through the fur on its mother's stomach and crawl into the marsupial pouch. Throughout, the mother kangaroo remains indifferent to the baby's struggles. This, says Durrell, is "the equivalent of a blind man, with both legs broken, crawling through a thick forest to the top of Mount Everest...