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...ugly, stupid name, and if only she had a prettier one-say, Marguerite-some of her yearnings would be satisfied. Not that Clara was ever exactly sure what she was yearning for. Born in a flatbed truck on a muddy Arkansas highway, brought up in a series of squalid, lice-infested migrant labor camps, Clara simply suffered from a painfully tugging notion that life was a nasty, frightening dream, and that somehow, some day, she would wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hardscrabble Heroine | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...present insecticide goes specifically after lice...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Dr. Williams' Licekiller Ends an Insecticide Era | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard scientists have produced a synthetic hormone that kills body lice every time. The little mites carry epidemic typhus, trench fever, epidemic relapsing fever and other things that can make you feel out of sorts...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Dr. Williams' Licekiller Ends an Insecticide Era | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...Carroll Williams of Harvard's biological laboratories, with Dr. J. W. Vinson of the School of Public Health, carried our experiments on the School's own colony of body lice...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Dr. Williams' Licekiller Ends an Insecticide Era | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...people. Rioters took to the streets, demanding arms for defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures of the King and shouting anti-Hussein slogans before Hussein's elite Arab Legion fired into the crowd from the walls around the Damascus gate. Riots dragged on for two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Sequel to Samu | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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