Ricin immunogenic in mice, rabbits, and humans. It has completed two successful clinical trials. Ricin has been involved in a number of incidents. In 1978, the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated by Bulgarian secret police who surreptitiously shot him on a London street with a modified umbrella using compressed gas to fire a tiny pellet contaminated with ricin into his leg. He died in a hospital a few days later and his body was passed to a special poison branch of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) that discovered the pellet during an autopsy. The prime suspects were the Bulgarian
Tip on a Dead Jockey arrested at the scene of the crime. The thankful authorities elect not to punish Lloyd, who returns to Phyllis' open arms. At one stage, Orson Welles was going to direct the film. According to MGM records the film earned $400,000 in the US and Canada and $650,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $886,000. Tip on a Dead Jockey Tip on a Dead Jockey is a 1957 film drama directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor and Dorothy Malone. It is based on "The New Yorker" 1954 short story by Irwin Shaw. Phyllis Tredman is shocked when husband Lloyd,