Our daughter Lynda had been flying all night from California on the Red Eye Special. She had just said good-by to her husband, Chuck, who was leaving for duty in Vietnam.

The Second Part of this Orrery I call a Tellurian, … becauſe it ſhews moſt accurately and evidently all the Phœnomena ariſing from the Annual and Diurnal Motions of the Earth, in a Terreſtrial Globe full Three Inches in a Diameter; upon which all the Parts of the terraqueous Surface are diſtinctly delineated, …

Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?

On a raw wintry morning, a watermill may talk of damp and rats, and other comfortless things; but on such a day as this is, its cool gushing sound and spattery playfulness are delicious both to ear and eye.