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...lowliest of nature's creatures, a rod-shaped beastie less than a ten-thousandth of an inch long. Its normal habitat is the intestine. Its functions there are still basically unknown. Yet this tiny parcel of protoplasm has now become the center of a stormy controversy that has divided the scientific community, stirred fears-often farfetched-about tampering with nature, and raised the prospect of unprecedented federal and local controls on basic scientific research. Last week the bacterium known to scientists as Escherichia coli* (E. coli, for short) even became a preoccupation at the highest levels of government...
Among the governors of the N.F.L., such talk is heresy. They insist that football is America, manliness, work ethic, integration and Vince Lombardi saying for the thousandth time, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." This, if it means anything at all, means that Lombardi saw a movie called Trouble Along the Way in 1953. Playing a football coach in that film, John Wayne mouthed the lines that everyone now attributes to Lombardi...
...crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths and campaign paraphernalia. On the freight platform is the rocking chair where Miss Lillian, Carter's already legendary mother, gives her thousandth interview...
...homeless and brave white people and savage black maniacs. This courtesy of Reuters, graciously printed on the front page by The Times. Again, no guerilla or Mozambique comment, or any African black nation's comment for that matter. Then on the ed page The Times deplores Rhodesia for the thousandth time and backs majority rule. The clear reason for this: embarrassment at running all the other racist garbage this week...
...Canada's University of Alberta gives an estimate in his book Six-Legged Science that the insect population of the world is at least 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 and, taking the weight of each insect as a not unreasonable 2.5 milligrams (less than one ten-thousandth of an ounce), he figures that the weight of the earth's insect population exceeds that of its human inhabitants by a factor of twelve...