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...primitive man thrust into and beaten up by a world he never made. Of the two, Johnson had it better; he merely became a clerk in the British civil service. When the enlistment officer came around to see Abu Zed, the wily old chief saw a chance to get rid of his greatest nuisance. He sent Gadein off to the Buna Service Corps, a native transport outfit attached to the British army in North Africa...
...government if it weren't for McCarthy. The Senator has done a great job and will continue to do so." No matter how sincere Mr. Sears may be in his statement that he will go to Washington unprejudiced, his past actions make this unlikely. Only by getting rid of Sears and replacing him with someone less partial, can Mundt and his committee prevent what may well be one of the country's biggest whitewashes...
Mixing the Vaccine. In a rambling pharmaceutical plant beside the Detroit River, the Parke. Davis technicians perform more alchemy. Using both Toronto-grown virus and their own crop, they filter the brew (to get rid of kidney cells, which might cause nephritis), make up 12½-gal. lots in steel tanks and add a dilute formaldehyde solution. When they are satisfied that the formaldehyde has killed every one of the billions of virus particles in the tank, they are ready to mix the vaccine...
...They should prefer to see Swiss cheese . . . put into the trap. But let no one confuse a process with a crime, and if the Gorgonzola is smelling up the house, then change the cheese, but, in God's name, do not forget that the house has to get rid of its dirty rats!" Others-e.g., Quincy Howe, Elmer Davis and John Vandercook-took after McCarthy with verbal scalpels...
Borrowing two sound trucks, the zoologists advanced on Millheim, Pa. (pop. 750, plus 10,000 starlings). After three nights of highly amplified shrieking, most of the starlings evacuated Millheim (only 100 insensitive birds remained in town). A somewhat longer campaign rid State College (pop. 17,000) of all its obnoxious starling roosts...