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...their customary lairs in the intestinal veins, they give patients a single injection of tartar emetic. The flukes, which find the emetic as unpleasant as most human beings do, come scurrying out into the main bloodstream, and are shunted through the tubes. Since they are about half an inch long, they are stopped and trapped by the filter, while the blood passes through, unharmed...
...provide any serious competition for U.S.C. Teammate Bob Seagren-who only two weeks before had set a new world record of 17 ft. 7 in. Wilson, who learned to vault using bamboo from neighbors' yards, soared 17 ft. 8 in. to beat Seagren's mark by an inch...
...introduced a recording tape aimed at the multimillion-dollar computer, television-broadcast and instrument markets. Called Crolyn, the patented tape uses chromium dioxide as its magnetic medium in place of conventional iron oxide. Du Pont says that the chromium dioxide tape not only holds twice as much information per inch as ordinary tape but reproduces high-frequency signals with greater fidelity...
...Attack, Attack & Attack." Defeat did not bring disaster to Arab political leaders. The Israeli attack on Syria seemed to have saved, for the time being at least, the wild-eyed Baathist regime of President Noureddin Attassi. Jordan's King Hussein, whose outgunned troops fought the Israelis for every inch of land, became the hero of all the Arabs. A cheering crowd in Amman converged on the King's Cadillac limousine, picked it up and carried it five yards to demonstrate their adulation. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, a longtime enemy, paid tribute to Hussein's "personal...
...great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough...