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...cases each year. But detection is often difficult, especially in women. Gonococci, the germs of gonorrhea, flourish and multiply astronomically in human genitalia, but are difficult to preserve for laboratory test cultures. The organisms are sensitive to air and often die by the time a specimen reaches a lab technician. Now Smith Kline and French Laboratories have devised a simple, self-contained test that physicians can perform in their own offices. The doctor takes a single smear from the patient's vaginal or anal area, places it in a tube enriched with a nutrient developed by the U.S. Center...
Died. John Berryman, 57, poet; by leaping from a bridge near the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus, where he taught. Berryman was a consummate verbal technician who had a deep love affair with the blowziest aspects of 20th century popular culture. Robert Lowell said that Berryman's "universe is more tearful and funny than we can easily bear." To help himself bear temptation, Berryman became a member of Alcoholics Anonymous. His 77 Dream Songs won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize and four years later the National Book Award went to His Toy, His Dream, His Rest...
...quite the typical) Friedkin has disciplined his actors to imitate real policemen and other essentially dull but real people--rather than having them assume the imagined mannerisms of a scriptwriter's brain-child. In American film it's a new style of acting, demanding the selflessness of a technician rather than the self-consciousness of an aspiring star. The result is neither especially sensitive characterization nor revelatory film. But a hard look at a few realities of one much misunderstood kind of life in this country, taken with a minimum of analytical equivocation, is more than enough to pin anyone...
...deaf to "read" speech, the voice-print machine analyzes patterns of frequency and amplitude, transcribing each variation into a spectrogram. One of the chief developers, Physicist Lawrence Kersta, claims that everyone's voiceprint is as unique as his fingerprints, and that any skilled technician can identify a voiceprint with more than 99% accuracy. Other scientists have disputed his claims...
Great Swan and Little Swan, 97 miles off the Honduran coast, together cover scarcely three square miles. Little Swan is uninhabited: the larger island is used principally as an air-navigation and weather-reporting station. Its population consists of a U.S. Federal Aviation Agency technician, four weathermen and 16 civilians, most of them related in a four-generation link to the island's thrice-married elder. Captain Donald Glidden, 79, a Cayman Islander who settled on Swan in 1927. There are also innumerable booby birds, notable for their droppings, which for centuries have been used as fertilizer...