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...because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
Sargent Kennedy leaned back in his chair and scrutinized the khaki-clad private with deanlike eye. Watching the minutes of his furlough tick by, the private gave the dean a flshy, enlisted-man's stare--the attentive, ingratiating stare that might go with muddy boots or non-G.I. shoes...
Picture Cary Grant sitting at the piano, abstractedly picking a B flat. Suddenly he looks up and sees a grandfather's clock. His face glows. Inspiration at last. He says slowly to himself, but with growing conviction, "like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock as it stands against the wall." Then he looks out the window. It's raining. Another inspiration. "Like the drip, drip drip of the raindrops when the summer shower is through." Somehow Cary manages to continue unaided by props through "so a voice within me keeps repeating" when Alexis Smith, always present...
Plans v. Oil. The Government had a whole drawerful of plans for the llaneros: credit and technicians for 500 new ranches, fences, anti-tick baths, selected forage, blooded bulls, housing and plenty of roads. President Rómulo Betancourt was well aware that the oil industry, with its $8-a-day wages, was advancing from the great coastal fields into the llanos. He wanted to keep the cowboy in the saddle...
...fast, from bolting his food to racing through his piano lessons. He is also a man of property, with a lively sense of money and ownership. Eight knows he is growing up, often listens closely when adults talk to each other so he can figure out what makes them tick...