Word: herding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herd Immunity." Bedside doctors say that there is no consistent difference be tween cases of flu caused by A and B viruses. Only in the laboratory can the offending particles be identified, by minute differences in the antibodies they provoke. But broad patterns appear. Type B is generally reported to be causing a milder than average illness, usually with four days of fever and malaise and four more days needed for recovery...
...Second Time Around, with Director Vincent Sherman to spur her flair for foolery, Debbie corrals a herd of yaks in what might otherwise have proved just one more way-in western. She plays a young "widder lady" from back East who arrives in Arizona, signs on as a ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine-but in style. When she climbs up one side of a horse, she falls down the other. When she tries to wrangle a calf, she ends up flat on her face in the barnyard muck. When she shingles a roof, she rolls...
...Aroostook, Me., because of oversupply, growers are getting $1.15 per barrel for potatoes that cost $2 to produce. "It's the worst I've ever seen," said one shipper. In Vermont, Dairy Farmer Harry R. Varney Jr. logged the worst year in seven for his 50-cow herd. Said Varney: "My investment is about $75,000, and it seems to me a man should be able to make about t $300 a month to live on and about 5% return on his investment. But I won't make that this year. And in another two years...
...Negroes in the group, has to walk eight miles from home to his school at Sekondi on the Ghana coast. Harvard Graduate Roger Hamilton, 22, teaching in the coastal village of Assinie, is cut off by tropical rains for nine months of the year, shares his house with a herd of goats and an occasional snake, sometimes needs eleven hours to Jeep 18 miles over Ghana roads to collect supplies. Hamilton has no complaints. Says he: "It's a good thing I don't mind isolation...
...from Father. Living Free follows Elsa and her human den mother from the lioness' mating, at the beginning of September 1959, through the birth of three cubs 108 days later. The Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary...