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...scientists were disease detectives at work on a medical whodunit that began last month when a physician at the Portland Veterans Administration Hospital phoned the State Board of Health to report "a patient under treatment for pneumonia of an unusual character." The doctor suspected psittacosis (parrot fever), and was right. It turned out that the patient, a laborer living in a skid row hotel, had been hired to help treat sick turkeys at a 7,000-bird farm on Sauvie Island. With proper antibiotic treatment the laborer is recovering, but 2,000 of the turkeys died. Of 1,500 turkeys...
Where, in the name of Semanticus, did your writer come up with that word "kakistocracy" LJan. 16]? Is it a government of parrots (kaka being a parrot found in N.Z.)? Or would a better meaning be government by the worst...
...middle-class prosperity: neat two-story homes in Ikoyi suburb, equipped with every modern convenience; a ramshackle bar in Shopono Street doing a hotcakes business in the best imported beer at 35? a bottle. A block from Ibadan's new University College, Nigerian necromancers sell dried mice, parrot beaks, snake fangs and yellow and blue face powders. On Sundays and pleasant evenings in Lagos, the folk who dress by day in rags emerge, as if by magic, in natty slacks and clean, yellow nylon sport shirts for an evening at the movies. And amid Nigeria's poverty, there...
Personality: "Bloody executioner, trusted slave" (Marshal Sokolovsky). "He is a babbling Belgrade parrot ... a bad actor. Imitating that hypocrite and poseur Churchill, Tito wanted to be a hunter, writer and chess player, but like Churchill he is a bad shot, a still worse writer, and at chess he is beaten even by the lowbrow Pijade . . . Greedy and insatiable as Goering." (Literary Gazette...
...made-in-England original, Walt Disney's Treasure Island (TIME, July 24, 1950). On deck once again is the cutthroat pirate crew, the boy in the apple barrel (Kit Taylor this time), the mutiny, the mad castaway, the attack on the fort-even the same rented parrot, or its Aunt Polly. Luckily, there is also the same actor to play Long John Silver: Robert Newton...