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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Government experts have now confirmed the finding of foot-and-mouth disease virus in his blisters, which makes his the first proved case in Britain. And to make sure that he was not a symptomless carrier, the authorities kept him quarantined for a while-not from people but from farm animals. To Brewis, even though almost 45,000 farm animals had to be slaughtered, it is all something of a joke. Said he: "My only worry was that I might have to be destroyed...
Bedouin Folklore. To check the ancient folklore, Krown examined local rainfall records. They had only been kept since 1924, but since then, at least, Bedouins had been right. Moderate rainfall in October was almost always followed by an exceptionally dry winter. Dry Octobers generally preceded three-month periods of above-normal rainfall. "I felt that if we could understand the weather circulation in October," he says, "it could possibly tell us what was going to happen...
True, walls slanted like adobe slabs, windows were kept to narrow slits and the roof was flat. But Architect Kruger had proposed making a trim, circular building that resembled a massive beveled cogwheel. To historical buffs, it looked altogether too modern...
...history of Attorney Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, a shotgun attack on the Warren Commission. "We commissioned him to write it," says Publisher Barney Rosset of Grove Press, which is known chiefly for its back list of classic and not-so-classic pornography. "But he kept stalling, so I finally said, 'If you don't deliver it on time, don't deliver it at all.' " Lane did not deliver. He took his book to the New American Library, which rejected it as uncommercial. It was finally published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, has been...
...first nine minutes of the game, a combination of Crimson mistakes and the phenomenal driving ability of the Lord Jeffs' smooth sophomore forward Wally Bazenas kept the score respectable...