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...spoilsport Degens was not yet ready for conclusion jumping. After making certain that no more organic material could be extracted from the meteorite powder, he covered his samples with filter paper and let them stand for two weeks. He then boiled them again. From each sample of dust came a fresh assortment of biological chemicals very much like the first. Dr. Degens' conclusion: the dust under the filter paper was reinvaded by ordinary earthly microbes. He is convinced that meteorites analyzed after lying around museums for years are contaminated, too, and offer no proof at all of extra-terrestrial...
...boat, Tito talked enthusiastically of his plan to attack a National Guard post. Mary Ann headed for port, Elaine took the outboard in tow, and Tito headed for a secluded island to finish the arms transfer undisturbed except for the pop of Dame Margot's flashbulbs. But the spoilsport crew of the Mary Ann, reaching port, spilled the whole plan to the National Guard...
Whenever and wherever the itchy-footed U.S. tourist goes beyond his own borders, he runs a high risk of coming down with diarrhea. For this spoilsport condition he has a variety of evocative names,* and he invariably blames it on the local food and water, which he suspects of harboring amoebae or other low and exotic forms of life. In this he is almost certain to be wrong, said Manhattan's Dr. B. H. Kean in a report to the A.M.A. For all its global prevalence and frequent severity (it can touch off fever and vomiting, lead to dehydration...
...spoilsport. Dr. Jordan believes that digestive cripples should be encouraged to exercise in moderation and go out for noncompetitive sports, e.g., golf between husband and wife, or tennis doubles between two couples. A keen early-morning golfer herself, she is the only woman member of Marblehead's Tedesco Country Club allowed to play on Sundays...
...principles-which Eliot once oversimplified in his self-description as "an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature, and a royalist in politics." Lapsing into angry prose, Author Purcell elaborately accuses Missouri-born Thomas Stearns Eliot of being a reactionary, a Christian, an American, a spoilsport and ployer of anti-lifemanship, a sociologically irresponsible escapist. In a typical passage, Purcell complains that "The very great improvement in the living conditions of the working classes" after World War I was "of no concern" to Eliot-which is about as irrelevant as panning Shakespeare for being a jingo...