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...March 1959. in the British Central Africa protectorate of Nyasaland, harmless-looking Elard Chipandale, 31, tied a handful of magic twigs about his waist, donned a coat of tree bark, and turned himself into a crocodile. He lay in wait by the bank of the Mwanza River for an eight-year-old girl named Mponda
...From the Bark. Endocrinologist Conn got his lead from what seemed like experiments in a torture chamber. To help the armed forces cut down World War II manpower losses from tropical heat prostration, he kept volunteers working at 90° F. and a relative humidity of 80% to 90%. After about a week, the men became acclimated to the artificial weather...
...Conn reasoned that a hormone must be at work, influencing especially the body's handling of salts. But nobody had identified a hormone with such precise effects. He could only guess that it was one of the many produced by the outer cortex or "bark" of the adrenal glands which are astride the kidneys. In the early 1950s, other investigators confirmed Conn's hunch by isolating an adrenal hormone now called aldosterone and recognized as one of the most powerful of all the body's chemicals...
...dancing, drinking and casual lovemaking, the festival has a bittersweet air. After their nightlong revels, Budapest's residents pick their way to work along pock-marked sidestreets, gaze absently at the stripped-bark scaffolding on buildings gutted by Soviet tanks during the 1956 rebellion, queue up for the consumer goods that always seem to be in short supply. The Red army still stays prudently hidden in its camps ringing Budapest, and the hated AVH secret police have been replaced by a less conspicuously murderous bunch known as BKH, but nobody is enthusiastic about the "permissiveness" shown lately by Premier...
Virginia's Harry Byrd, 75, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been ailing for weeks, and Washingtonians freely surmised that the old budget watchdog had lost not only his bite, but also his bark. Little did they know. Last week Byrd came out roaring like a lion after reading in the Washington Post that "Budget Director Kermit Gordon told a congressional committee yesterday that a balanced budget would lead to increased unemployment, higher taxes and a general economic decline...