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...answered a magazine ad that promised to make me a magician and also 'The Life of the Party.' " Not to mention the death of the household. He worked for hours every day at card tricks in front of the mirror. His mother says he was a pest: "He was always at your elbow with a trick." To this day, reports his sister Catherine...
...fast as the new core units were rested in place, plumbers and electricians began connecting them up to the existing water mains and electrical inlets. Meanwhile, carpenters installed new living-room and bedroom wall panels and ceilings, adjustable aluminum window frames and plastic-coated flooring. As a final touch, pest-control men went through the building to exterminate any left-over rodents and roaches, while roofers closed up the hole through which the core units had been lowered. Seven minutes before the 48-hour target deadline was reached, the whistle blew and the job was done...
...India, Ghana, Algeria and half a dozen other governments and U.N. agencies. Moreover, he is a Cabinet adviser to his longtime friend and neighbor, Harold Wilson. He has engineered many of the tough tax programs and convoluted controls in Britain-where Budapest-born Balogh is widely known as "Pest...
...painfully swollen lymph glands form dark discolorations called buboes; death follows massive internal bleeding. People infected with the most virulent, pneumonic form can infect others by sneezing. The villain is a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, which thrives in rats, the fleas that bite them, and humans exposed to either pest. Destroying fleas and keeping rats from migrating curb the plague, but Viet Nam's fleas have grown more resistant to available insecticides; and, for example, there are only four quarantine inspectors to see that busy harbor ships keep a constant guard against invading rats...
...long as I govern, I shall do everything to destroy this pest," Erhard thundered in a recent speech. He did not stop with rhetoric. Calling a Cabinet meeting on the subject, Erhard instructed Interior Minister Paul Lücke to ask regional officials to submit reports on the Gammler menace in their areas. Last week the reports came in. All agreed that West Germany's beatniks are just about as conscientious as any other West German citizens...