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From Palm Springs come the genial protests of Gerald Ford, who also liked to close the day with two martinis (5 to 1) and when things went well (or badly) had three. The ghost of De Voto is walking the land, recalling the poetry in the first martini: "The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted . . . your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart . . . the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going...
DIED. Fred F. Finklehoffe, 67, Hollywood and Broadway producer-writer; in Springtown, Pa. Finklehoffe and John Monks Jr. wrote a parody of their cadet days at Virginia Military Institute that became the 1936-37 Broadway hit Brother Rat. Finklehoffe went on to produce other successful plays and revues (The Heiress, Showtime, Big Time). He also co-authored several screenplays, including For Me and My Gal and Meet Me in St. Louis, for which he received a 1944 Academy Award nomination...
...such a process escape unscathed. A print reporter who finds a rumor to be unfounded usually does not refer to it in print; but a television reporter's unverified insinuation, heard on-camera, lingers in the audience's ear. The scene recalls the notorious "ratissage," or rat hunt, of the French army in Algeria, in which captured guerrillas had to run a gauntlet of soldiers wielding rifle butts...
What to do? Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats to appear...
Researchers at the University of California have apparently already broken strict Federal rules recently designed to curb the potential biological hazards of recombinant DNA research. The California violation occurred in a well publicized experiment culminating last May when researchers inserted the rat gene that controls insulin production into bacteria that had not been certified for use in DNA experiments. The experiment created no hazard and researchers claim they destroyed it as soon as they realized their error. They later completed the experiment with certified bacteria...