Word: armadillos
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...Duck Dunn's bass. Freddy King's licks have been compared to those of the other two Kings, B.B. and Albert (no relation), but he has a versatility and rock empathy which cuts the other two to bits. A second lp by Russell and King, recorded live at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, should be released soon. From all reports, it will be as exciting as Getting Ready...
...species shares man's natural susceptibility to leprosy, and thus far no artificially infected animal has lived long enough for the slow-developing disease to reach the later, progressive stages in which it can be fully studied. None, that is, except armadillos. Gulf South researchers report that an armadillo infected with the leprosy bacillus has survived well into leprosy's progressive phase. They now hope to raise a whole laboratory colony of leprous armadillos and use them to study a malady that until now has been completely observable only in humans...
...irrational hatred between the film's antagonists, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In the recent Che!, he suggested the primitiveness of the Bolivian mountains by conjuring up an original score based on the sullen, pentatonic folk music of the ancient Inca tribes, even using native instruments like the armadillo (strings stretched across an armadillo shell). The film was a disaster, but Schifrin's score won widespread acclaim...
...Ethel was the hostess who presided gleefully when Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was pushed, fully clad, into the swimming pool at a Hickory Hill party. She was the mistress of a wacky ménage that included even more animals than children?Brumus, the huge Newfoundland of nippy disposition, the wandering armadillo that broke up tea parties, the pet hawk that once landed on Mrs. Averell Harriman's wig. She was the dinner-party cutup who once, in mock jealousy at the attention a high Government official was paying another woman, tossed a candleholder at him?to the obvious distaste of Jacqueline...
Unsymmetrical Arrangement. In individual sets of quadruplets, some animals had hearts, or spleens, or adrenal glands as much as twice as large as those of their siblings. Analysis of organs showed a great disparity in the acids and other chemicals they contained. One baby armadillo, for example, had in its adrenal glands 140 times as much norepinephrine (a hormone that constricts blood vessels and maintains blood pressure) as could be found in the adrenals of an identical brother...