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...wife, Joyce (Maggic Smith), never ceases to grind this fact into Gilbert's muddled brain. Gilbert vainly tries to advance himself as a chiropodist, i.e. someone who scrapes corns and fungus off the bottoms of other's feet, but he attracts the hatred of the local surgeon, Dr. Swaby (Denholm Elliott), who unceremoniously boots him out of his office. At this point Gilbert decides to go undercover...
...vulgarity. A month before the 1962 Game, held in Cambridge, Mass., members of the Harvard band paraded through New Haven at 4:30 a.m., concertizing at full volume; seven of them were arrested. This sort of thing is expected, as are naughty formations and cheers of startling crudity. A fungus of tastefulness has formed in the past few years on both sets of musical pranksters, however. An overrefined dignitary from the dean's office has objected to Harvard's best formation-the word PROCREATE!, more or less, spelled out on the field at half time...
...flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with raw sewage, and medical teams distribute antityphoid vaccine and foot-fungus ointment. It is monsoon season in Southeast Asia, and as this year's rains have made all too obvious, Bangkok (pop. 5.5 million) is slowly sinking...
AIDS attacks its victims by knocking out the immune system, thus leaving them defenseless against a host of "opportunistic" infections. A rare form of cancer or pneumonia becomes a deadly invader, but so does a fungus or a common virus. Thus far, there is no cure for AIDS and its source remains unknown. "We've looked at a lot of suspects," says Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), "but we have not come up with enough grounds for an indictment...
None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...