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...HEN'S HOUSE by Peter Israel. 255 pages. Putnam...
...Americans handcuffed him and took him, protesting, to a Vietnamese police station. Brother-in-Law Loan quickly had him brought to his office to sleep it off, and next morning chewed the mayor out in no uncertain terms. But there were also Vietnamese sensitivities to be considered. U.S. Ambassador Hen ry Cabot Lodge expressed Washington's "regret" at the incident, and General Loan announced that henceforth American MPs would confine their arrests to U.S. personnel...
...Flown Before? Much of their madness is visual, relying on Hen-dra's cucurbitaceous shape and Dolly Sister face and on Ullett's saturnine suavity. Put them both in riff-R.A.F. hats and let them pose as World War II briefing officers, and things quickly get out of hand. Announcing that tonight's mission will be over Frankfurt, Ullett pauses to inquire: "Who's flown before? I see. Can anyone drive? Oh good. Stand up so they can see you. You'll be flight leader. The rest of you divide up in groups...
...newspaper underwear in the spring, the skin comes away with the paper. Yet he has survived, "always knowing that war is not forever and that we live by growing things." Surviving with him are a few sempervivums, or everlivings-among them the European houseleek, sometimes known as "hen and chickens"-a proper plant for this chickenhearted man. Another surviving plant is the Sempervivum melintese, thought extinct for a hundred years and now, like the hero, "resurrected in captivity...
Breast of Chicken. Major reason for the delay in Rous's recognition was the very nature of his award-winning discoveries. In 1911 he reported that he had ground up and filtered material from a kind of cancer (sarcoma) on the breast of a Plymouth Rock hen...