Word: hunters
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...acted pretty irrationally toward his American colonies. So, on evidence, historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians are nuts. Dr. Richard Hunter and his mother, Dr. Ida Macalpine, wrote in the British Medical Journal that George was obviously suffering from "acute, intermittent porphyria," a rare liver disease that upset the royal nervous system and made the king delirious...
...Apache Indians became threatening. Meriwether suspended him forthwith. After Carson sent an abject letter of apology, Meriwether grudgingly reinstated him, but as long as the semiliterate Carson remained in his service Meriwether issued reprimands about his sloppy administration. "Poor Kit," he said, "was a good trapper, hunter, and guide, and . . . had acquired a reputation which spoiled him, and which in after life and in a higher position he failed to sustain...
Ostlund's findings, which he reported last week to a Miami conference on tropical oceanography, were derived from samples of water vapor he collected in September during harrowing "hurricane hunter" plane flights through Betsy, the storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Though the amount of tritium in atmospheric water vapor over the central Atlantic and the Caribbean is usually from eight to ten times the quantity in sea water, the concentration in the samples Ostlund collected decreased as the plane approached the storm center. In the vapor in the cloud wall surrounding the storm...
...week to the day after Quaker Norman Morrison burned himself to death outside the Pentagon, Roman Catholic Roger LaPorte, 22, a student at Manhattan's Hunter College, doused his clothes with gasoline and set himself aflame on a street corner outside United Nations headquarters. Like Morrison, he chose immolation as a way to protest U.S. warfare in South Viet...
...Sinister Madonna" is also the name of the first movie produced by the Ivy Film Society. The president of the society, Timothy Hunter '68, is behind the camera. He's the director and writer of his saga of the very near east...