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...different "Asian A2" and Hong Kong strains that erupted in those years. The Pasteur scientists do not claim to have anticipated such a major mutation. But in between such large alterations, the virus undergoes a process called "antigenic drift," in which subtle changes occur in the virus' protein overcoat. The now prevalent London flu strain represents one of several such minor changes in the basic Hong Kong virus of 1968, and generally available vaccines are only 50% effective against...
...Stennis got out of his car shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled...
Cartmell is captain of the Yale swimming team. His father, who also went to Andover and Yale, used to show up at Andover swimming meets in an enormous blue overcoat, armed with a loud voice and a stop watch...
...into a room, locked it, turned the lights out and lit incest [sic]. Piped in music began. I handed her 3 tens and said we'd have to take it easy as I just ate lunch. I took off my vested business suit and overcoat and layed on my stomack, nude. I started some talk about a burglar alarm that was ringing and was ringing for the last 2 days. We talked about the weather...
...Nazi rebels were no geniuses. One coup leader, separated from his troops, wandered around in the July heat of Vienna "disguised" in an overcoat. But the government bumbling allowed the rebels access to the Ballhausplatz (the residence of Austria's Chancellor), where one of them, Otto Planetta, shot Dollfuss. Maass concedes Planetta may only have been "trigger-happy," but the conspirators completed the crime by refusing Dollfuss both a doctor and a priest. Because the Chancellor had sent his Cabinet away, the coup did not destroy the government. The plotters were executed. Germany was still too weak to intervene...