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Finally there is Marta, who as a young girl was the opposite of her studious sister. She pals around with Roberto and his friends, hitching rides on the bumpers of trolleys, playing in the streets. But at about 14 she runs off and marries a rat, who alternately leaves her and comes back, finally leaving her with four children. Then she meets Baltasar, whom she does not love, but who accepts temporary responsibility for the children. At the time of the interviews, she too is miserable, and with her whole family, living on the generosity of Jesus...
...mice could not resist infection from bacteria. Their graft-rejection mechanism was severely impaired, and as a result their skins accepted grafts not only from unrelated strains of mice but even from a different species, the rat...
...peasants of Binhdinh province say the rats this year are thick as a man's leg from eating the crops. Is there no rat poison available? Yes, there is the kind sold by the government for $1.65 a lb., but it seems to make the rats fatter and healthier. A better poison is sold by merchants for $3 a lb.-too expensive. Actually, both are the same-but the one poison has been diluted to ineffectiveness by government officials who sell the real thing on the black market...
...Corps. Stephen Smith -Jean Kennedy's husband-is special assistant to the head of the White House "Crisis Center." Actor Peter Lawford-Pat Kennedy's husband-helped pay off Democratic debts by co-producing an inaugural extravaganza, still shows up at Kennedy conclaves, sometimes with the Hollywood Rat Pack in tow. Until he suffered a stroke last month, Father Joe was in regular touch with the President, offering encouragement and loyalty...
Capable Scripters Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the book and lyrics, but apparently their thinkwell ran dry. The initial notion sounds funny: to explore the antics of a special tribe of New Yorkers who shun the workaday rat race by turning into moles. They doze at Grand Central, sleep on subways, and even rest in the Egyptian sarcophagi at the Metropolitan Museum. They are not exactly bums, but grey flannel grifters who sponge off friends, walk dogs, and ring Christmas bells as charity Santas...