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During the Cuban crisis, the Administration indulged in what it euphemistically called "news management"--an unhappy combination of silence and dishonesty which has been sending chickens home to roost ever since. Just over a week ago, Senator Dirksen proclaimed that he had discovered the largest such fowl yet brought to light; four American flyers had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. A day later, Senator Mansfield revealed that "selected Senators"--apparently all Democrats--had been told of these deaths at the time of the invasion...
...elements in the mystery have been clarified, says ''Viruses and Cancer." a progress report published this week by Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. In many of the cancers, including leukemias of domestic fowl and laboratory animals, a virus is an essential factor. But to say that a virus causes the cancer may be an oversimplification. The tubercle bacillus is the one essential factor in tuberculosis, but mil lions of people carry the bacillus without ever developing the disease. By analogy, researchers argue, it may be that viruses, or viruslike particles of whatever origin...
...begun to react to these fowl blows. In Geneva, Senator J. William Fulbright from chicken-fat Arkansas interrupted a debate over nuclear weapons for NATO forces to protest Continental hostility to U.S. chickens. Conferring with Konrad Adenauer about Berlin this month, John Kennedy also brought up broilers. In Brussels two weeks ago, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman grimly announced: "We are not going to see our proper and historic export markets lightly taken away from...
...named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
...centuries, a jumping ritual known as the zaar has been used to drive away djinn, or evil spirits, by Egyptian witch doctors. At a typical zaar, affluent customers are ordered to bring such items as sheep and goats for sacrifices; humbler offerings of fish and fowl may be demanded of the poor, but the witch doctors always come out ahead. After the djinn-soaked customer is isolated for a week, the witch doctor bursts into his room with a band composed of drum-beaters and female vocalists whose job is to shriek. The zaar goes...