Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glissando Lecture. Indeed, Arnstein takes such proprietary interest in his scores that he refers to them as "our music," frequently advises the composers on how to simplify complex rhythms and smooth awkward transitions. They are accustomed to Arnie's wee-hour phone calls (he knows all their working habits) and the familiar question, "Do you really mean this?" In the case of obvious irregularities, many composers trust him so implicitly that they tell him to do the patchwork. In one instance, when Arnstein was confronted with a low F for the violins-it just does not exist on that...
...about a job, Lynda Bird Johnson gave McC all's the first call, then dropped in on Old White House Friend McGeorge Bundy, now with the Ford Foundation. George Hamilton was on hand to enchant her evenings, and Lynda spent her last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito, where Georgie, accompanied by five violinists, sang Language of Love in her ear. Meanwhile, down in Nassau the language was "Do Not Disturb" as Luci and Pat hid out in a Lyford Cay villa for four days before emerging...
Drowsy Victim. Dr. Gebhardt knew that in the summertime, usually beginning in July, at least one species of mosquito carries the WEE virus from infected animal to man or from infected man to man. He also knew that some birds, notably swallows, harbor the virus. But in the Rockies and on the high plains the carrier mosquitoes die off as winter begins and insect-eating birds fly south. Where did the virus spend the winter...
...Gebhardt had good reason to suspect snakes. The Culex tarsalis mosquito, principal carrier of the WEE virus, hatches out in swamps. Early in the spring, when birds are still scarce, the female mosquito lights on the nearest creature for the blood meal she needs before she can lay her eggs. Dr. Gebhardt figured that the victim might be a snake just emerging drowsily from hibernation. Starting in 1961, he hiked miles through swamps and caught plenty of garter, gopher and blue racer snakes, but found virus in only...
Timely Spraying. By now, researchers working along the same lines have found WEE virus in other cold-blooded animals-such as lizards and frogs. These findings do not mean that reptiles or birds that carry the virus for a while should be exterminated, Dr. Gebhardt emphasizes. What they do show is that mosquito-control spraying should be timed to hit the swamps in spring, when Culex tarsalis is hatching, so that bloodthirsty females of the species get no chance to dine on creatures in which the virus hibernates...