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...bond-raising tour, was one of the very few diplomats who predicted that Egypt's rising young Colonel Nasser would elect to join neither West nor East but Nehru's neutralists. For all his urbanity, Abba Eban sometimes argues his case with a touch of bitterness and bite. "Israel," he once said, "stands out as an island of freedom in the wilderness of despotism...
...soon developed that Japanese B is transmitted to humans by the bite of a mosquito, Culex tritaeniorhynchus. Only the females are venomous bloodsuckers; the gentle males stick to flower nectar. All well and good, but mosquitoes disappear in winter. Where did they fill up with encephalitis virus in the early summer to pump it into humans? The answer was an animal, no doubt, with seasonal habits-one easily infected with the virus but not made seriously ill or killed by it. That pointed to young animals, which would promptly develop antibodies. The only creatures that fitted these specifications were birds...
...lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money, since the Alleghany loan plus two other loans, totaling $12.5 million, allowed him and .Richardson...
There the matter rested. But before he went back to Texas, Wheeler-Dealer Murchison got back on the stand and cleared up one point. When Referee Fitzsimmons tartly observed that a $20 million deal "was a pretty big bite for a man worth only one-third that amount," Murchison amended his original estimate of his personal wealth. He was really worth, he guessed, "about $30 million." Added Murchison: "I consider money to be the same as manure. If you pick it up and put it out in the fields and till it, you get good returns . . ." Cracked Referee Fitzsimmons, dryly...
...cheerleading squad. The fur suit, famed for its expert Charlestoning, disappeared from a student's room, where its three guardians had left it while eating dinner. Appealing for aid from anyone who knows its whereabouts, they said that though the suit looked and felt like a tiger, its bite was harmless...