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...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
...prices in Indian village markets. The ants, called Hau, are eaten raw. In tests on rats, Mittra & Mitra found that the ants rated high in digestibility. Chemically analyzed, they were rich in carbohydrates and protein. Encouraged by these findings, the Journal suggested studies of other bugs such as head lice and bedbugs, highly fancied by Melanesians...
Attention, M. Miller--we quote from a Baker encyclopaedia: "the Catta Pilosa, commonly referred to as the caterpillar, is one of the most clean of its species. Erroneously believed to be a lice carrier, the 'catta' actually feeds upon lice and sand fleas...
Just after noon on the second day a 20-year-old Austrian lieutenant stumbled from a cellar, surrendered the last organized remnant of Germans, exhausted, grimy, self-dubbed Kriegsverlängerer (war prolongers). From other, forgotten basements crawled pale, cadaverous, smelly, lice-ridden villagers. For weeks they had lived underground on popcorn, dried beans and water; now, amid the ruins of their homes, they cackled with hysterical relief...
...Parris Island is as good a backdrop as any for Diamond's fabulous personality. In his new job he greets recruits with a wounded-bull roar, shoves them through an assembly line of showers, haircuts, lice inspection and clothing issues at the rate of 200 an hour. He bawls countless lectures at awed recruits (and quaking second lieutenants), lectures he has learned by heart in 26 years of professional soldiering...