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...another pet Kennedy proposal seemed about to bite the dust. He was just not having any luck with taxes...
Coconuts & Canoes. Filariasis infects some 190 million people in the tropics. In the Pacific it is contracted from the bite of a mosquito, which deposits microscopic juvenile forms of a nematode, Wuchereria bancrofti, in the skin. In the human victim, the roundworms mature to a length of 1½ in. to 3 in. They live and multiply almost exclusively in lymph nodes, especially the big nodes in the arm pits, groin and scrotum. Their tiny offspring are picked up from a victim's bloodstream by a feeding mosquito-soon to infect another victim...
...yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked for a buyer...
...problem, of course. Both Milty and one of his assistants got their starts by working with the Baumanns. Milty was a colleague of theirs at Jack and Marion's, moved on with them when they founded their own shop. And Milty is anxious not to bite the hands that set him on his feet. "I wouldn't want to take business from them," he says, and adds quickly. "But then I couldn't. Elsie is Elsie...
AWARE, Inc.'s shadowy terrorism once had the entire television industry quivering in fear, but until the Faulk case no one had ever had the courage to bite back. Faulk's attorney was Louis Nizer, who had earlier helped Quentin Reynolds win a $175,001 verdict in his 1954 suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, the highest award ever made by a jury in a libel case...