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...water tests are a skillful blend of obedience training and instinct gauging. The first simply requires the dog to go into the water and return to shore on command from a handler. "It looks so easy," said Breeder-Handler Cardel Verbruggen, "but it's actually an acid test. The dog has to be willing to swim to go in, and not every dog-even some Newfs, unfortunately-is eager for the water. And once he's in, he can't just swim around for the fun of it and still be a rescue...
...Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those other escapees. It teaches you the tricks of the mountain, like traveling at night and how to see in the mountains in the dark while going through a rough thicket." As a handler of bloodhounds, Chapman is known to his fellow guards as a "dog boy"; to the inmates, he is a feared "sniffer...
...Food and Drug Administration was about to outlaw saccharin. What was remarkable was that the disclosure came almost two months before the FDA acted and that it was made in Food Industry Newsletter, a four-page, biweekly newsletter that is written, folded, addressed and mailed by Phyllis and Julian Handler from their Manhattan apartment...
America's current spirit of skepticism toward Sci-Tech is, above all, the popular response to that question. The answer is a no so resounding that when it came, it was mistaken for a mortal war on science. So alarmed was Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, that in 1972 he preached publicly on the urgent need to stave off the "crumbling of the scientific enterprise." Today, with that enterprise clearly waxing (federal funding for science this year: $24.7 billion, up 67% in eight years), Handler's excessive reaction may seem like that...
...Story. Meanwhile, the New York Times published two articles by Reporter Seymour Hersh that directly contradicted the TIME accounts. Hersh named as chief sources two brothers: Wayne Collier, 33, who worked as CIA recruiter for the crew, and his younger brother Bill, hired by Wayne as a cutting-torch handler. Though neither man was aboard the Glomar at the time of the sub lifting, Bill was on the ship when the retrieved portions were being dissected. In a sense, Hersh's account reinforced the original CIA thesis: only the sub's forward third was recovered. But he added...