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...Library." Actually, he edges a bit closer when he consults some old Borneo hands. "You'll find the high spot of your day," advises one, "is cleaning your teeth. The only bit of you you can keep clean. Don't shave in the jungle, because the slightest nick turns septic at once . . . You'll think it's the end of the world. You can't breathe. You can't move." Wear long pants, he continues. "You won't want to nancy about in shorts once the first leech has had a go at you, believe me." Another tells him, "Take...
...appeared in his courtroom last February to sign a $4.6 million settlement of seven lawsuits involving the pharmaceutical firm's Dalkon Shield. The intrauterine birth-control device, which was on the market in the U.S. from 1970 to 1974, has been linked to severe pelvic infections and septic abortions; the Shield is also alleged to have caused 18 deaths. Ten thousand women have filed lawsuits and claims against the company, which has thus far paid out $220 million in compensation and $13 million in punitive damages to 5,500 claimants...
...carted their kids to Cub Scout meetings. Bill tinkered around the house, and pieced out his teacher's salary by painting houses and working at the post office on school vacations. Erma, he says, was always repainting or redecorating, moving the furniture around. There was, of course, a septic tank, and in the summer, says Erma, "you could see that little sucker sink into the ground and you'd think, 'There goes another $400.' " But there weren't many one-liners: "Who was there to listen...
...handsome new house in Paradise Valley, overlooking Phoenix, is calm now when calm is needed. There is a secretary to intercept phone calls and a maid to chase dust balls. Bombeck does not even know if there is a septic tank. Bill and Erma have separate offices, and she is in hers by 8 each morning, after walking a "killer mile" or puffing along with a videotaped exercise routine. At her desk she is all business. When she has time, she weaves twigs and bits of string into a play and says that the first act is in workable order...
...editor at McGraw-Hill, Gladys Justin Carr, recalls a lunch meeting in Chicago when Bombeck was publicizing her fifth book, If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, hoping to match the previous sales of The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank. As Bombeck was about to begin her speech, a procession of waiters entered, each bearing a bowl of cherries over his head. There was laughter, then