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...world now has about 8,500 species of birds and 25,500 species of feather-eating lice. Nearly every bird has a few lice, and some have thousands. Benjamin Franklin, the Misses Rothschild and Clay report, regretted the choice of the bald eagle as the emblem of America "as he is generally poor and often very lousy." As soon as infant birds climb out of their eggs, the waiting lice set upon them, chewing their feathers and nibbling their skins. They crawl into the throat pouches of pelicans and cormorants. One species feeds exclusively on the tears of swifts...
Their deceptively innocent emblem was the Renaissance façade of the Campidoglio, Rome's city hall, designed by Michelangelo and beloved by all Romans. They called their candidates' roster the Lista Cittadina-the citizens' list...
...sham and shame of commercialized college athletics had been lambasted by Manhattan General Sessions Judge Saul Streit. Last week the judge was indignant once again. Before the court were three basketball players of Kentucky University's "fabulous five," young men who had proudly worn the U.S. Olympic emblem in the 1948 games. The three had pleaded guilty to "fixing" a game for gamblers...
...imperial emblem of the Rising Sun was run up the flagpole of a graceful, lagoon-fronted building in Tokyo one day last week. Japanese workmen briskly removed "Off Limits" signs from the grounds. For six years, the famed Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1922, had been a symbol of Japan's defeat and the opulent haven of U.S. VIPs, generals and colonels, who luxuriated rent-free in its fine rooms, savored sumptuous meals for 40? and dispensed tips of two or three cigarettes with the grand gesture of selfless philanthropists. Last week, returned to its Japanese...
Working back through the hospital's records, De Angelis found many references to the "beneficial influence of soft and melodious music on the flow of mothers' milk." A 13th Century miniature showed players wearing costumes and carrying bagpipes* marked with the hospital's emblem. These, De Angelis concluded, were used to make lactogenic music until the shawm replaced the bagpipe...