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...Some ants are gardeners. Latin America's famed leaf-cutting parasol ants, long thought to gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...
...lull them to sleep. Over-the-road truck drivers take amphetamine to keep awake, and highway authorities suspect that many unexplained accidents result from the hallucinations which it causes in some subjects. Dieters sometimes take amphetamine to cut their appetite, but most doctors consider this dangerous. Convicts used to chew the Benzedrine wafers from inhalers to get a quick lift, until the manufacturers changed the formula...
...CHEWING-tobacco decline (production down 29% in nine years) is the fault of the automobile, says E. A. Darr, president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. "In the horse & buggy days, a fellow could chew and expectorate safely. Not any more...
Other Republicans were also trying to chew their McCarthy and have it, too. National Chairman Leonard Hall, just leaving the White House after talking to President Eisenhower, said: "While Joe is fighting Communism, I go along and we all go along. When he begins to attack persons who are fighting Communism just as conscientiously as he is, I can't go along with him." Then Hall told McCarthy the same thing. Joe was not visibly disturbed...
...three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food...