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...aircraft repairman at Travis Air Force Base in California was admitted to the base hospital with severe malaise and nausea and passing dark urine. Liver function was abnormal, and a laboratory examination showed evidence of infectious hepatitis. Within 24 hours, not only the man's wife but all their eight children had telltale symptoms of hepatitis. A team of Air Force medics headed by Major Ralph D. Reynolds reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine that the virtually certain source was water leaking from the freeze balls. The water also carried whooping-cough germs, an amoeba and four species...
...covered table, cackled excitedly, flapped his "wings," then grew silent. "I laid myself an egg," he said moments later. "Then I hatched myself and gave birth to me." Joey spent six years at the Orthogenic School. Restored, he has since finished high school, and now works as a TV repairman...
...shoebill stork, barely acknowledges the presence of a female acquired especially for him. Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology...
...subplot. In the underwater cartoon, for instance, a waterlogged dove, bearing a soggy olive branch, tells Punk: "Oh, I just hate this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic-strip readers to his cartoon. "It's a form of brain washing," he says...
...General Abrams is certain to encounter considerably more heavy fighting in the South when he takes over from Westmoreland. Fortunately for the U.S., intensive fighting is an art at which Abrams has long demonstrated both instinctive mastery and uncommon zeal. Born in Feeding Hills, Mass., the son of a repairman on the Boston & Albany railroad, Creighton Abrams grew up learning to drill tin cans with a rifle, raising baby beef as a 4-H farm boy, and driving around in his Model T. In high school he was both an outstanding student and captain of a championship football team that...