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...Veterinarian Jungherr. a 24-year-old lab worker came down with a bewildering variety of symptoms after going to work as a monkey handler, developed a polio-like stiffness of the neck and died. The autopsy showed that monkey virus B had spread through his lungs, heart, spinal cord and brain...
...freshman and the sophomore from Antioch College who share a room in a huge federal building in Bethesda, Md., are free men, but their routine last week was as rigid as a prisoner's. Almost as confining as leg irons were the polyethylene tubes and electric cord that hooked each of them up to a trolley loaded with complicated apparatus. Peter Schmidt, 18, and Lawrence Baldwin, 20, got out of their room only once a day, to walk a few steps down the hall and be weighed on a scale that is accurate to a fraction of an ounce...
...final abolition of all remaining duties and quotas between the member states. Impressed by the agreement, Britain last week pressed with new confidence for Common Market membership, and the U.S. took a big step toward expanded trade with it (see THE NATION ). Said Konrad Adenauer of the Brussels ac cord: "This is one of the most important events of European history in centuries...
...FIVE-DAY LOVER. The year's funniest import, a gay Gallic comedy of promiscuities in which Director Philipe de Broca, with the inspired collaboration of Comedian Jean-Pierre Cassel (The Love Game), assembles charming wisps of humor, twists them into a pretty little cord -and strangles every libertin (and libertine) in Paris...
...Deterling, 28, got the idea when he heard of Communist plans to tear up 500 yds. of the rail line between Albrechtshof and the West Berlin border. He drained the air from the emergency brakes so that no Communist aboard could stop the unscheduled express by yanking the emergency cord, then roared the locomotive at 50 m.p.h. past the Albrechtshof station into the British sector...