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Breakout After Stress. Like viruses, PPLO can invade living cells and destroy them from within. Like bacteria, they can grow in a chemical broth independently of living cells. Though PPLO differ from bacteria in having ill-defined shapes (see diagram), some are believed to be variant forms of bacteria. And like many bacteria, some PPLO are natural inhabitants of the human respiratory, intestinal and genital tracts, where they cause no disease until they are activated when the individual has been subjected to unusual stress...
...raptor has about the same status as a clay pigeon. With the cynical and inaccurate excuse that it is a men ace to both man and beast, the golden eagle has been poisoned, trapped, nest-robbed, and pursued in planes by hot-shots taking potshots until the North American variant of this noble species stands in imminent danger of extinction...
...Fugitive. TV plans some new homes, or at least campsites, on the range. Four Texas rangers from Laredo (NBC) will be ranging Texas anew. The Legend of Jesse James has finally cracked TV and will get the cleaned-up Robin Hood treatment from ABC. ABC also has a variant of Bonanza called The Big Valley; Barbara Stanwyck plays Lorne Greene, dispensing wise advice and stuff to her three sons and a daughter, plus her dead husband's bastard boy for extra spice. Robert Horton, late of Wagon Train, has now forgotten his name and goes searching around the West...
Twitches & Jumps. Only by the end, however, does the most fundamental doubt emerge. The Ambassador claims to be a variant of that novel of religious crisis that West has written before. But this time the claim is spurious. Though Maxwell Amberley twitches and jumps to plenty of religious alarums, the genuine spiritual conflicts never quite make it onto the stage. Instead, big worldly events distract the reader from his wholly justified suspicion that the business of the soul is being carried on in false coin...
Lentz picked Tuesday to put in a new defense, the "52." It's simple variant of our normal "55"--the three interior linemen in our five-man line jam more closely together. That means the middle is packed and tougher to run against. It also leaves linebackers with more outside responsibility. And it would throw Yale's blocking assignments off. It's hard to keep track of one man who's shifting from one position to another...