Word: bugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve...
Chasing a Bug. For years, researchers have been trying to isolate and assess the role of PAP viruses. In 1944, Harvard Virologist Monroe Eaton found in the sputum of some pneumonia patients an agent that caused PAP. So far, researchers have not been able to prove for sure that "Eaton Agent" is a virus. It goes through fine filters and thus seems to fall in the sub-bacterial size-range of the viruses. Like some other viruses, it can be grown in chick embryos and hamsters. Using new fluorescent techniques, researchers have traced the antibodies that are formed to fight...
Mary Bunting does not speak of it. She went on running the new farm, raising four lively children, studying her "bug." When Yale proposed that she take a full-time job researching and lecturing on bacteriology, she grabbed it. "I never once heard Polly talk about herself-ever," says an old friend...
...order of Henry Ford, who regarded them as admirable curios -with their antiquated typography and illustrations-to send to his friends. Beula & Co. found the old readers to be just the ticket: McGuffey gives a firm phonetic grounding and follows up with stories that bug a child's eyes out. Kids can read of a Cruel Boy who pulled the legs from flies, a Kind Boy who freed his caged bird, a Tease who frightened a playmate into insanity. The books excerpt Shakespeare, Byron, Scott and Whittier; McGuffey's great characters are Napoleon, Louis XVI. Lafayette and Washington...
...intercontinental missile, which was exploding so regularly that birdmen joked wryly about "the Snark-infested waters off Cape Canaveral." Time and again, Air Force procurement officers threatened to cancel the Snark if it failed just once more, and to scrap the F89 if it turned up just one more bug...