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...Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...
...attractive, but not stunning," Tom Hanks admits somewhat ruefully. "I'll look in the mirror and if the lighting's right, think, 'This ain't bad.' At other times I look as if a squirrel has slept in my hair and as if I've been slugged in the nose. My butt's too big, and my chest's too small...
...arms control and nuclear deterrence, ideology yields to four decades of reality in U. S.- Soviet relations. -- The lonely life of a twelve- year- old refusenik. -- Noriega thumbs his nose at the U. S. again while American officials wrangle over who is to blame for a backfiring bungle. -- The cross- border big stink about the polluted Pigeon River...
Last month, on the same day he was fired as Baltimore manager, Cal Ripken Sr. pleaded guilty to drunken driving, a familiar Oriole road that Earl Weaver had swerved down before him. A manager is scarcely a manager if his nose has never required batteries. Tommy Lasorda, who for insurance reasons has removed the beer keg from his Dodger Stadium office, tells some funny stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office...
Humans are under constant siege by these voracious adversaries. Germs of every description strive tirelessly to invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent...