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...near Mentmore, England. This year, however, the records have been falling fast. On Easter Monday, a team of masked men invaded the Security Express depot in London and made off with an estimated $10.5 million in cash receipts. Two months later, five armed men, three of them disguised in monkey masks, forced employees of Bonds jewelers in central London to open their vault and escaped with $15.7 million worth of gems...
...recall a single full-length movie about his school, but countered that "Love Story was written at Yale, and there were several Yale names in it even though it took place at Harvard." He added that "in Bedtime for Bonzo [starring Ronald Reagan, who went to Eureka], the monkey in the end gets smart enough to go to Yale...
Yeager's view that a real pilot was above astronaut work proved deadly accurate. The highly competitive Mercury VII crew ceased their infighting over which of them would be first in space only when it become apparent that none of them but a monkey instead, would lead the way. It is almost sad to watch the seven proud pilots ultimately realize that their work required little skill beyond stamina, and to demand technical modifications giving them more control-necessary only for their pride not for the mission...
...uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Thousands of firecrackers popped and fizzed in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...
...paralysis, but one type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength-in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate...