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...biography that lacks her husband's professional brilliance but is highly competent in its own right, Author Maurois tenderly quotes the description of Miss Howard given to an interviewer by an aged servant of Beauregard: "I shall never forget Milady descending the stairs in the Chateau on the tick of seven in a great crinoline and wearing all her pearls. Ah, Monsieur, how beautiful she was! I promise you that she was a most respectable person and fairy-godmother...
...hear Hagen's progress report, delegates strained for their notebooks when he started to tick off key facts. One engrossed note taker: Russia's Vladimir Kotelnikov, who headed a 16-man delegation. Kotelnikov shrugged off questions about Russia's progress in moon making: "They will launch one when they are ready...
...Democratic liberals for a surer battle. He had grown so certain that he could fend off attempts to weaken the enforcement powers of Part IV with compulsory jury trials that he declined White House aid lest it offend his group of Northern Democratic liberals. By midweek Bill Knowland could tick off a safe 39 Republicans, another ten or eleven Democrats ranged against the jury trial...
...first doctors thought of poison or polio. But a bright young resident physician, hearing Myrna's parents describe how the paralysis had crept up to her head, remarked: "It sounds like tick paralysis, so be sure to look for a tick." Attendants found an engorged tick embedded in Myrna's hair,, its head deep in her scalp. A doctor sprayed the area with ethyl chloride, which froze the tick so that it could not burrow deeper (as ticks do when disturbed), worked it out with a pair of tweezers, taking care not to break off the head. Within...
...Tick paralysis is caused by a venom that the female tick is believed to secrete only when producing eggs. It affects children more severely than adults. Myrna Tubby's tick proved to be Dermacentor variabilis, common in the southeastern U.S. (other areas have closely related species), and superabundant at this season. For parents removing ticks, doctors prescribe: gloves, tweezers, and extreme care to get the tick's head...