Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...title was not made lightly, says Psychologist-Editor James McConnell, who heads the University of Michigan planarian (flatworm) research group, which publishes the W.R.D, "In psychological jargon," he explains, "those who experiment with rats are called 'rat runners,' and those who work with insects are called 'bug runners.' So we are 'worm runners'-and we're proud of it." Not enough scientists dig McConnell's logic-or humor. Some will not publish their work in a journal with so frivolous a name. Editors of other psychological journals refuse to allow their contributors...
Across the U.S. last week, it seemed to be raining footballs. No. 4-ranked Alabama scored three touchdowns on passes in a 42-6 pasting of Vanderbilt; the passing bug was so contagious that even a fullback tossed for a TD. Between them, Purdue and No. 2-ranked Michigan State put the ball in the air 51 times, and M.S.U. wound up with the ball game 41-20. Missouri, which was expected to run all over lowly Iowa State, needed a leaping touchdown catch in the final minutes to salvage a 10-10 tie. And Harvard, which had stuck...
...dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened by a Viet Cong trying to tug off his boots. "Bug off!" Miller shouted at the startled Red, who promptly complied...
Puzzled by its sudden silence, Opatrny told Mrkva that the Czechs wondered why the bug had worked perfectly for 20 minutes and then stopped. Mrkva said he had accidentally dropped the mechanism. Opatrny then ordered him to get it back since the Czechs hoped to plant a similar device in the office of Under Secretary George Ball. Said he: "Everyone wants to know what is wrong with...
...some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When...