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Better Lemmon. For such reckless abandon Crawford pays a price. In Black Comedy to date, he has suffered a whiplash neck, a gashed and infected back, four ankle sprains, eight torn ligaments, and splinters in all ten fingers. The other night, while fastening the neck brace he has to wear between performances, he was asked why he didn't put out a little less or stay home and play his favorite sport of Monopoly. Crawford, aghast at such an unprofessional thought, replied: "I wouldn't give up those laughs for anything. My injuries are pleasure bumps...
...days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived by playing dead. It was not surprising that the deception fooled the enemy troops: a Red bullet had torn through his left ear and out his nose...
...Enam, the second tale, develops much the same theme. Gemulah, the wife of Gabriel Gamzu, has been transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel, and begins to wither like a flower torn from the soil. When the moon is full, she speaks in a tongue long dead and sings songs of unearthly beauty-all of this recorded by an unreal, evanescent figure named Ginath...
Urey suggests that lunar water had a terrestrial origin. If the moon was torn from the earth, he says, it would have carried off substantial amounts of water. Or if, as Urey believes, the moon was a planetary interloper captured by the earth, its gravity would have attracted terrestrial water as well as solid matter during the cataclysmic events caused by its close approach to the earth...
...class, chief justice of the student court and a political science major. He is working for college money as a computer technologist at North American Aviation's Autonetics Division, and has been awarded full scholarships by both Harvard and Stanford. He hopes to become a diplomat, is torn between the two schools, but leans toward Harvard. An introspective boy who has never attended an integrated school, he worries about the competition he will face. "Up to now," Terry concedes, "I haven't really been challenged...