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TIME researchers also occasionally turn to Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...
...darling of the Dadaists, days of his early prose poem: "The salmon sheen of silk stockings at the hour when cities are aflame. . . ." But readers who remember Aragon's ruthless, panoramic novels of prewar France (Residential Quarter, The Century Was Voting) will find none of the old satirical bite in Aurélien...
...producers have portrayed the grim struggle to save a herd from the Japanese with all its harsh, wearing aspects. A long push to a dried-up water hole comes over as a very real tragedy and the countless flies sticking to the riders' backs are the kind that bite, not just shavings from a Hershey bar pasted on the shirt of a sweaty extra...
...brought eleven chinchillas to California where they became the progenitors of practically all U.S. chinchillas. They proved not excessively hard to raise. They live on cheap vegetables rather than expensive meat. Unlike mink, they do not tear one another to bits. They have no unpleasant odor nor do they bite the hand that feeds them. In their wild state, the males are monogamous; but on the fur ranch, they can be persuaded into polygamy. A female can produce three annual litters of one to five offspring...
...Tiny Bite. That was true enough. Prices of most farm products are still well above levels at which they must be supported: e.g., wheat is 121% of parity and hogs 159%. The support program had nothing to do with boosting them there. So far this year, the Agriculture Department has probably spent less than $50,000,000 to support farm prices, a tiny bite in the nation's food bill of billions. But the Department has spent it in such a way as to raise the biggest outcry against the program...