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...rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal has been stricken. Since the current outbreak began in early November, Ministry of Agriculture officers have killed 42,000 cattle, sheep and pigs, paid out $2,800,000 in compensation to farmers...
...EDGE OF DAY, by Laurie Lee. An English poet describes his poverty-stricken boyhood in Britain's Cotswolds with great good humor and lyrical delight...
...attended by a young homosexual who is almost capable of loving her in a limited sense, but again in a futile one. The mother returns to find her daughter in the ninth month, kicks the young friend out, and then flies off herself. Alone once more, Jo is stricken by labor pains. When she survives the first wave and manages a funny little smile, almost a smile of awakening, she is forging a beautiful and strong expression of her hope...
...repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers and sedatives do not relieve them. Bewildered, the doctor may tell his patient to go home and rest, only to have him stricken again there...
Like an umpire stricken with palsy, Mr. Ian Macleod, Britian's Colonial Secretary, sits fluttering in his chair in London as the conference on federal constitutional review for Rhodesia and Nyasaland only continues to reveal the intransigeance of both sides...