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...Jackson hotels and restaurants, a stinger or a Scotch on the rocks was served with a straw. Dry-martini buffs gagged on concoctions as wet-and sometimes as muddy-as Old Man River. The patron who asked for a screwdriver was more apt to get a tool than a tipple. Thus, with more complaint than celebration, Prohibition receded from the last officially dry state in the Union. Since Mississippi's ban on liquor was dropped on July 1, counties with two-thirds of the state's population have voted...
...five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger), and, explained Clegg, "he does love pâté de foie gras and caviar. He drools terribly if you serve either...
...Waterville, Colby unsheathed its stinger during the second period, in an exchange which started 0-0 and ended up 4-3. Colby struck back in the third period, getting past stalwart Bill Fitzsimmons twice in nine essays. Harvard bombarded its foe with 17 futile shots. The ten-minute overtime locked up the deadlock, although Harvard again got off more goalward pucks, five shots to the Snowmen's three...
...over the U.S., pet lovers are buying what the trade calls "exotics." Rover, Tabby and Budgie are as popular as ever, but they are being crowded by Huggy the boa constrictor, Beaky the vulture, Stinger the scorpion and many other creepy, crawly, slinky, slithery creatures that once belonged in zoos...
...chemical means) can produce most of the effects of the whole virus, but it is a thousand times less powerful. Evidently, the researchers suggest, the virus needs to be "carefully packaged for safe transmission." One effective package design is like a tadpole: the virus uses its tail as a stinger to pierce the cell and inject the nucleic acid. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute have just reported photographic evidence that this is the mode of attack used by a mouse leukemia virus...