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...year in Mexico alone. A rabies-infected bat shows no symptoms for three months or so; then it suddenly goes mad, even attacks other vampires. In this way, the disease is transmitted from one bat to another. Within three to 15 days, the rabid vampire dies; anything it has bitten during that period is likely to contract derriengue...
...baby-sitting with her painting, turned out glowing portraits of her own children. But she got bored with the soft outlines and warm colors of the nursery, went outside into the cold, hard northern light. Soon she was doing angular, boldly drawn studies of Dutch cities, and sculptural, hard-bitten portraits of Rotterdam prostitutes, rugged Low Country peasants and miners as well as artists and intellectuals...
...What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...
...Capitol Hill, hard-bitten old Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, tapped his foot impatiently, waiting for the Pentagon to stop talking and get its bill up to Congress so he could begin his hearings. If the U.S. was finally to get a draft law with teeth in it, he was anxious to get started...
...vaguely with "counterrevolutionary organization and agitation against the Soviet State," and refused to give her a trial, but demanded that she sign a confession anyhow. Not knowing what to confess, she refused-and drew a five-year sentence in Siberia as a "socially dangerous element." Among the starved, louse-bitten, work-weary inmates of Karaganda concentration camp, Comrade Buber lost her last illusions about the Kremlin dictatorship. One early incident was enlightening: when she asked for a "reopening" of her case, she was tossed into a punishment compound...