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What are the Sox' chances of maintaining their present lofty gait (7-5)? That's like asking what are the chances that a rhesus monkey, given a pack of Corrasable Bond and rubber stamps of the letters A and X, will turn out the 1962 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But the Red Sox are high in the commodity known as spirit, and as Connie Mack used to say, if you haven't got it there, the prospects of your having it at all are remote at best...
...virus which occurs naturally in primates (rhesus and related monkeys) has been shown capable of causing cancer. Both Merck & Co. virologists and Dr. Bernice Eddy of the National Institutes of Health, who reported similar results, had to go back to hamsters to start their cancers growing, but there was no doubt that they got their effects with a virus, known variously as the vacuolating agent and SV (for simian virus) 40. It is the first primate virus shown to cause cancer in any animal...
...Swell," was the comment of Rhesus J. Portfolio '03 after his team's crippling 3 1/4-3 upset loss to Samuel Tech yesterday on Soldiers Field...
...Rhesus J. Portfolio has been responsible for the Golden Renascence of the game at Harvard. "I first came to the sport," Portfolio recalls, "while reading Ecclesiastes with President Eliot. I don't think he fully appreciated my ideas, but it struck me right off as the final solution to our athletics problems. It builds character, you know...
Goats undergo the surgeon's knife for nerve-grafting experiments. Pigtailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, marmosets and rhesus monkeys figure in cancer and behavioral studies. Horses and sheep provide blood for scientists anxious to study rabies and staphylococcal infections. Rice rats, Mongolian gerbils and Egyptian spiny mice are used in nutrition studies; some mice are inbred for as many as 99 generations so that researchers can study the mechanisms involved in tissue transplants. Venus clams by the dozen sacrifice their hearts to the study of the chemistry of the nervous and muscular systems...