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There are plenty of harmless--not to say innocuous--but still pleasant aspects to the evil old lady. A ride on the MTA will take you to most of them at 20 cents a shot; cars are not cows and therefore virtually useless; Boston was not made for them...
Many an airline passenger has tensed uneasily as lightning streaked the sky and the eerie blue glow of static electricity outlined the wing tips and propellers. Yet airmen have considered static electricity aloft relatively harmless. Now and then, lightning may blow out radio equipment or burn small holes in aircraft skin sections, but there are no recorded cases of major damage. Discharge of static electricity, named St. Elmo's fire by mariners of the Middle Ages, who thought the phenomenon a good omen from their patron saint, is considered no danger at all. When a plane flies through stormy...
...principal victims. They are concentrated in urban and. rural slums, among Negroes and Puerto Ricans. This is partly explained by the fact that vaccination has been most neglected in these groups. But a major paradox is that, because of living conditions, these were formerly the groups in which harmless natural infection occurred most often, making paralytic disease rare. One suggestion: the wild viruses may be changing their way of life. The only thing certain is that polio is far from having been defeated...
...than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder drug: in some people, at some times, viruses of supposedly the relatively harmless, common-cold class may cause disease as severe as influenza, while the more feared influenza viruses may give rise to symptoms no more severe than those of the common cold...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tines of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre...