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Houston's outbreak-the first in the city's history-began in the dingy Negro sections, where mosquitoes breed in open drainage ditches and get into houses through tattered window screens. But the disease quickly spread to all areas of the city, probably borne by the female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, a night biter that acquires the virus from birds (and possibly small animals and reptiles), which are thought by most experts to be the natural reservoirs of the disease. SLE attacks the spinal cord and the brain, destroying nerve cells and frequently damaging the small blood vessels that...
...letters last week from a modest and makeshift trailer. Their aim: to market a $3,000,000 stock issue that they will use to open a bank. The men, all trained in junior executive positions at the Chase Manhattan Bank (two have left), are typical of a bold new breed who are making new banks bloom all over the U.S. after a 40-year decline in total numbers...
Pots of Silver. Land reform, that ever-popular rallying cry, was not responsible for the estancieros' downfall. They were victims of history and their own excesses. The original estancias were carved from the wilderness in the early 19th century by an adventurous breed of Spanish, British, Italian and Irish immigrants. Their sons and grandsons made their own legends by squandering the wealth. Argentines knew them as ninos bien, the wellborn children...
...German-speaking Sexbombes are a persevering, single-minded breed. Typical of her fetching generation is Senta Berger, 23, a former student at the Max Reinhardt Institute in Vienna, who played hooky from school to do a tiny bit in The Journey with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner, went on to play in The Victors, and stars with Charlton Heston in Major Dundee. Israel's Dahlia Lavi, 21, learned to dance in Sweden, has made films in France, had her first U.S. movie role in Two Weeks in Another Town, with Kirk Douglas. Lavi, who speaks English, Swedish, French, Hebrew...
Times have changed, and so have many liberals. While championing some of the old, established causes to the hilt, Roche, a respected constitutional historian at Brandeis, belongs to a new breed of "tough-minded" liberals who try to avoid inflexible positions and judge the issues on their merits. Naturally, this does not sit well with ideological types, who, according to Roche, "seem to be preserved, like flies in amber, in the militant postures of their youth." In this collection of essays Roche has written, in effect, a brilliant riposte to the dogmatic left...