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...reach home, you see your family's smiles of greeting, you see their lips move, but the rich experience of hearing the tone and rhythm of their familiar voices is lost. . . . The deaf man . . . misses the snatches of talk normally overheard as we ride the subway ... the tick of a clock . . . vague echoes of people moving in other rooms in the house . . . [the] incidental noises [which] maintain our feeling of being part of a living world. ... He feels as if the world were dead...
What makes America tick! John Merriman Gaus, professor of Government, fresh from the University of Wisconsin, thinks that in a fundamental way it is the "flexibility" which permits men of every partisan, tie to, cut across dogmatic lines and tackle common problems together. It is the co-operative planning process distinctive to free governments. To public administration expert Gaus the great intangible in United States success rests with "bringing people into practical community problems where they'll forget formal ideologies and get down to some real thinking...
Footpads, pickpockets and housebreakers, with all the riffraff who lived by their wits, filled the underworld of London's alleys and gin shops with an argot of which traces still survive. "Frisking" meant searching, then as now. A watch was a "tick," a handkerchief was a "wipe," and "wipe priggers" (pickpockets) flourished among theater standees. A glass of gin was a "flash of lightning',, and too many flashes often lit the way to "Tuck 'em Fair" (the place of execution...
...ticks carry fevers. Scientists estimate that only one in a hundred is infectious. But victims cannot tell which kind of tick has bitten them until they are on the way to the hospital...
...Female ticks are deadlier than males. They gorge themselves to the bursting point (five or six times normal size) and, if disease carriers, are just as dangerous to the tick picker who pops them as to the victim whose blood they suck. The male is flatter, smaller, less greedy. When he is sated, he noses around the host until he finds a feeding female, mates with her on the spot, moves away to start all over again. When the female is completely engorged, she drops off, finds herself a cranny to lay her eggs in (5,000 at a time...