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...Trib still had stars: Drama Critic Walter Kerr, TV Critic John Crosby, Fashion Editor Eugenia Sheppard, Food Editor Clementine Paddle-ford; Columnists Red Smith, Art Buchwald, Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann; Pulitzer Prizewinning Korean War Correspondents Homer Bigart and Marguerite Higgins. But while they still provided some bite, the paper had no molars. Able reporters and rewritemen, a paper's lifeblood, were vanishing. Star Reporter Bigart, back from Korea, was appalled at the change and defected to the Times...
...through clever but ever-polite cross-questioning in the squeal room. Not so on Felony Squad. "On our show the viewers will see the crime committed, so they know the guy's guilty. That way, nobody gets upset when we shoot him." Most often the TV crook will bite the dust in the usual gunfight finale, but on occasion he may die in an auto crash or fall to his death from a tower or cliff. In short, the good guys will still be beating the bad guys-at least...
...notion that mosquitoes bite snakes made most scientists laugh. But not the University of Utah's imaginative Microbiologist Louis P. Gebhardt Jr. By following up a hunch, Gebhardt has just climaxed an eight-year effort to trace the life cycle of a virus that causes one form of deadly brain inflammation commonly known as sleeping sickness...
...evidence that mosquitoes really bite snakes, Dr. Gebhardt has tested the idea in his laboratory, where skeptics have now seen a dozen or more mosquitoes perched on the head of a single snake, eating heartily. Unlike horses or humans, the snakes apparently suffer no discomfort and develop no encephalitis...
...weeks ago, Gordon's successor as Finance Minister, Mitchell Sharp, added bite to that bark by introducing a bill in Parliament that would have the effect of prohibiting any Canadian bank with more than 25% foreign ownership from having more than $200 million in assets. If it is passed, which is far from certain, the bill would immediately apply to only one institution: the Mercantile Bank of Canada (assets: $222 million), which is wholly owned by New York's First National City Bank. For the future, another provision of the legislation would also effectively bar any other foreign...