Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusually neat part; a smooth unflappable brow, something a gambler might try to cultivate (you cannot tell when he's riled or when a political card is up his sleeve by reading this brow); unremarkable eyebrows and ears; something of a potato nose; and the eyes of a predator bird...
Since 1971, Perdue's output has grown 17% annually, and stands now at 1.6 million broilers a week. Yearly sales are just shy of $180 million, making the Salisbury, Md.-based company the seventh biggest chicken marketer in the U.S. Wall Street bird watchers think it could rise as high as fourth by year's end. The privately owned company does not report profits, but President Frank Perdue, 56, says that in nearly six decades, it has never lost money...
...tunes that he recorded last April. Judging from Savalas' enthusiasm after one performance, he may have brighter prospects as a cafe crooner than a TV cop. Says he: "I was walking four feet off the ground and singing like a cannon." A cannon? "Like a cannon and a bird...
Another early suspect was ornithosis, a disease transmitted through bird droppings and direct handling of infected birds. "The picture in Philadelphia fits ornithosis like a glove," said Dr. Pascal Imperato, chief epidemiologist of the New York City health department. "The symptoms, the fact that this is obviously a common-source outbreak, the fact that there has been no secondary spread of the disease. All these point to ornithosis above all else, and ornithosis is very hard to isolate." An Allentown, Pa., physician, Dr. Gary Lattimer, tended to agree. Assuming that the disease fitted this diagnosis, he treated three...
This hypothesis, however, also failed to test out. CDC researchers screened the tissues for evidence of antibodies to bird-carried viruses. The results were negative. CDC tests found no indication of either plague or typhoid fever. So the search went on into more exotic terrain. Tests also ruled out tularemia (rabbit fever), a deadly tropical disease known as Lassa fever, and Marburg disease, a viral disease from Africa. Further screening seemed to dismiss fungi as a suspect; no fungus is known to produce the fatally fulminating pneumonia typical of Legion disease...