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Burke's Law (ABC) may last until Christmas. It features a Los Angeles police captain (Gene Barry) with an independent income who rides around in a Rolls-Royce driven by an Oriental chauffeur. One show features a parrot that squawks: "Rails up 2.6, utilities down 1.4." The cop has less distinguished lines to read. "That," he says, "is the way the body bounces...
Pigeons carry the infectious agents of a dozen diseases. They may reward the owner of the hand that feeds them with a dose of ornithosis (better known as psittacosis or parrot fever). In New York and probably in most U.S. cities, pigeons are also the principal carriers of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, or CN. The fungus does not seem to make the birds sick, perhaps because their blood heat is too high, but they drop it all over the place in their excreta...
...Buddy Roberts maneuvered carefully around the towering fire coral, 25 feet under the ocean off Key West. His tiny quarry, a 1½-in. jewel fish, iridescent blue spots gleaming on the deeper velvet blue of its body, hesitated at the coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
Fortunately, the treaty is so innocuous that oversights of this magnitude do no harm. But the Senate, for its own sake, should conduct a debate extending equally to all the important questions which the treaty raises. Narrowing the debate principally to strategy and weaponry forces both sides to parrot the data and analyses of outside agencies and individuals. Both sides surrendered some of their independence when they act as a clearing house for the views of others. Proponents slight the treaty's importance by permitting opinionated experts to inflate minor uncertainties into forboding obsessions. In the process, the proponents neglect...
...Parrot & Stick. In 24,000 brazenly contemptuous words, Mao accused Khrushchev of spawning a new personality cult worse than Stalin's, assailed the Kremlin for "great power chauvinism and economic pressure" against other Red nations, charged the Soviets with trying to purge foreign Communist parties. Exclaimed Red China: "What is all this if not subversion...