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...help nail down the indictment last week, Dr. Thomas M. Bell reported from a research center at Entebbe that he has isolated reovirus 3* from seven victims of Burkitt's tumor. This finding alone might well have been pure coincidence, but there was additional evidence: antibody against reovirus 3 has been found in 73% of lymphoma patients, and in only 12% of comparison subjects from the same districts. From Australia came further word: mosquitoes carrying the same type of virus have been found there...
...laughing. About him, the great, his thin-necked, drained advisors. He plays with them. He is happy with half-men around him. They make touching and funny animal sounds. He alone talks Russian. One after another, his sentences like horseshoes! He pounds them out. He always hits the nail, the balls. After each death, he is like a Georgian tribesman, putting a raspberry in his mouth...
Betting on Quality. The company weighs its risks carefully, sticks to the motto of its founders: "Rather no business than bad business." Essentially, Swiss Re bets on the quality of the insurance company whose risks it accepts, pays claims on the nail, often within 48 hours. The company weekly pays out an average of $4,000,000 in claims, takes pride in the fact that no client has ever sued it for payment...
...Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, is an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, and it ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...