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Huxley Vindicated

Nicholas von Hoffman H elmholtz rose from his pneumatic chair. "I should like a thoroughly bad climate," he answered. "I believe one would write better if the climate were bad.......

Wrestling With Guatemala

Patrick Marnham `T like Guatemala' said the European 1businessman. 'It could be a paradise ex- cept for the Guatemalans.' The identical remark is made by westerners in tropical......