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Millions of Americans-the estimates run between 8,000,000 and 10,000,000-keep parakeets for pets, and every year about 300 happy bird owners come down with psittacosis ("parrot fever," also called ornithosis). Before the discovery of antibiotics, psittacosis was unbeatable, killed scores of people in the U.S. This led to a federal embargo on all members of the parrot family-they still cannot be imported for sale. But last week, famed old (74) Virologist Karl F. Meyer was hailed at Stockholm's International Congress for Microbiology for a research victory that was strictly for the birds...
...Service boarding school in the Panhandle were flown home to their villages in Anaktuvuk Pass in the Brooks Range, and to Chukwuktoligamut near the Bering Sea. In the heartland city of Fairbanks (pop. 11,000), fourteen hundred 4-H Club members relieved their mothers of that wintered-in, cabin-fever feeling by piling outside and scurrying to register for their summer activities. Bud Hilton's Thawing Service advertised steam-cleaning service for building exteriors, while out on the Alcan Highway, dust warnings replaced ice-warning signs. On the Fairbanks outskirts moose calves, abandoned by their mothers, bawled like babies...
Written with spare and simple candor, the book is much more than a scalding footnote to fever-hot headlines. The Question does not stop with the Algerian question but goes on to ask: What does it mean to be a human being? It tells of the shame and glory of man. At the outset, "Alleg's inquisitors were as cocksure in their cynicism as in their brutality. They believed that just as every man is said to have his price, so every man has his breaking point. "You're going to talk! Everybody talks here!" they told...
There is a revivalist touch to his speechmaking: he starts slowly and sanely, ends up at a lung-bursting fever pitch that even includes personal attacks on Salazar himself: "I'll throw him out!" He has also challenged Salazar in the ex-professor's own field, economics: "Where did all the money go that we got for the cork, the wolfram, the sardines that we sold to both sides during the war? Only into the hands of the hundred privileged families...
Young Wisconsin Lawyer Haskell could fight-and write. He played a distinguished personal part in repe ling Pickett's Charge, and weeks later, the fever of battle still hot in him, he wrote his account of Gettysburg. It is the classic of its kind. Previously snatched up in limited editions as a buff's bonanza, and quoted by virtually all scholars of the battle for its vivid closeups of the thick of things, it now comes for the first time to the popular Civil War book market. The original gets tasteful, unobtrusive editing by Bruce (A Stillness...