Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Emperor has found the postwar world more baffling. At first he sided with the West, sent crack troops to Korea. Then he caught the neutralist bug, and last year set off on a flurry of state visits-to "our great friend" Tito, to Nasser, to Russia and Czechoslovakia. He brought back a $100 million Soviet loan...
...Mimbo. Durrell seems to lend his animals the qualities of far-out British eccentrics. There was the egg-eating snake which absorbed the yolk and white, regurgitated the crushed shell. There was Bug-Eyes, the needle-clawed female lemur, who daintily dabbed at her petal-thin ears with a drop of her own water as if applying perfume. But the most colorful character in the book is not an animal but the Fon of Bafut, a royal hedonist with a joyous appetite for women, dance, song and drink, in the form of tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native...
...exact amount is a court secret because a Manhattan judge decided that the case and Marjorie's accusations should not be aired in public. Last week, however, Marjorie's attorneys came out in the open to ask for temporary alimony, and that amount was enough to bug the eyeballs of even such a wealthy chap as Hartford...
...attention from sanitation experts. Faulty air-conditioning systems, surgical masks, dirty mopheads and bedside water carafes have been implicated as germ carriers. In a speech to last week's American Public Health Association conference in San Francisco, Dr. Howard E. Lind of Brookline, Mass. proposed another target for bug hunters: the pillows on patients' beds...
...have isolated the hepatitis virus, but the claim was hotly disputed and never proved. All other attempts have failed. The virus is relatively insensitive to heat, cold, chemicals and ultraviolet rays. No vaccine can be prepared because the disease perversely refuses to infect any animal but man. The hepatitis bug's small size and its frequent presence in fecal matter indicate that it may actually be an enterovirus -one of a group of particularly tiny viruses (including polio) that are found in the human intestinal tract. Says the PHS's Dr. Leon Rosen: "Isolating the hepatitis virus...