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Last week, after investigating a recent outbreak in Bloomington, Ind., which killed three people, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control announced a partial solution of that puzzle. The organism, or one closely resembling it, was found in water from an air conditioning cooling tower atop the Indiana University Memorial Union Hotel, where many of the victims had stayed, as well as in a nearby creek. The key to the discovery: two new culture media specifically designed to foster laboratory growth of the bug, which ordinarily multiplies so slowly that it is obscured by other bacteria...
...Researcher Alfred Kinsey intended to do a study of U.S. homosexuals, but he died in 1956 before the survey could be launched. It took twelve more years for his successors at the Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Ind., to start that project and ten years to complete it. Along the way, the Kinsey-ites spent $1 million and conducted two-to five-hour interviews in the San Francisco Bay Area with 979 male and female homosexuals and a comparison group of 477 heterosexuals. The result of their labors is a tome called Homosexualities, to be published next month...
...have never seen or even heard of a "severely thrashed" husband [March 20] in my 11½ years as a trial judge, handling about 10,000 divorce-case hearings in Peoria and Bloomington-Normal...
Wilson M. Baltz Bloomington...
...Bloomington, Minn...