Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that 70% of all U.S. veterinarians are in private community practice-about 40% working with food-producing animals and 30% with companion animals-yet one-fourth of all veterinarians are engaged in other health-related matters. Indeed, there are hundreds of diseases, including bovine tuberculosis, salmonellosis, psittacosis, rabies and ringworm, which are directly transmissible from animals to people. Tufts University has been successful in obtaining $10 million in federal funds to build the first veterinary school in New England. Unlike any other professional school in the country, it would enlist the participation of each of the region...
...Dellacroce adopted sharply contrasting tactics. Galante roams the country openly, accompanied by bodyguards and sometimes by his attractive daughter Nina, 21. A few weeks ago, two federal agents lost him at New York's Kennedy Airport. As the agents frantically scanned the crowd, one of them nudged his companion and whispered: "Wow! Get a load of that chick!" The other agent recognized Nina, and they were soon on Galante's trail again. Agents have followed Galante to Disneyland
...policemen into a nearby parking area. Reaching into his rucksack, he pulled out a sawed-off submachine gun, shot one of the officers in the chest and wounded the other in the arm. Commandeering an Opel at gunpoint from a passing motorist, he and his companion sped off in the direction of the highway to Stuttgart. As three carloads of Singen police gave chase, the pair took a wrong turn that brought them to a dead-end barrier near a brook. In the ensuing battle, a policeman grabbed the fleeing man's submachine gun and wounded the woman...
...suspected killer lay dying in a Singen hospital last week, he was identified as Günter Sonnenberg, 22, the No. 1 fugitive on West Germany's "Most Wanted" list. His companion, Verena Becker, 24, is now in West Germany's top security prison in Stammheim. Both had been involved with the terrorist Red Army Faction founded by Ulrike Meinhof, who hanged herself in prison last year, and Andreas Baader, who was sentenced to life imprisonment last month (TIME, May 9). Responsible for a series of "anti-imperialist" bank heists, bombings of U.S. Army bases in Germany...
FIVE SEASONS: A BASEBALL COMPANION...