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Impressed by this sense of perfect equality, writer Harvey Swados commented that "in time Sarah Lawrence girls become so much a part of the community that it is impossible to detect a girl's background. I can no longer tell who is rich and who is poor, or even who is black and who is white." Significantly enough, Swados made this comment with complete case to the reporters, and a group of three Sarah Lawrence girls which included a very light negress...
Meatballs & Mikes. For weapons, the rat hunters mostly used a supply of 300,000 poisoned meatballs-about one for every six or eight rats believed to be in the Ginza. Exterminators bugged ratholes with tiny microphones so as to detect enemy strongholds. They also planted extra-strong traps that are normally used to trap mink, since Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball...
...that the inherited defect may either produce severe illness within the first year of life, or lie dormant like a slowly ticking time bomb for as long as 40 years. In the A.M.A. Journal last week, two New York City doctors reported that they have developed a way to detect the defect before any illness has developed, when diet and drug treatment have the best chance to postpone, if not to prevent, its usual deadly sequence...
...immediately, beyond getting the patient and his family quieted down, and keeping his room full of fresh air. The patient should have his skull X-rayed to be sure that he has not fractured it in a forgotten fall. And he should have a spinal tap to detect infection or bleeding into the spinal fluid...
Despite Macmillan's frequent attempts to minimize the effectiveness of Soviet espionage, a disquieting account of Russian spying in Britain was volunteered by Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, who succeeded Galbraith at the Admiralty. "There are thousands of them. They are all trained to detect weakness in character, weakness for drink, blondes, drugs and homosexuality...