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...easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
According to Dr. Summer Rosen, who represented the American Veterans Committee at the Senate committee hearings, the bill is "obvious indoctrination; a naked power grab by the National Guard." He termed the bill an attempt to "repudiate the civilian tradition of teaching about Communism, by men who feel the civilian approach is soft...
...administrative experience than any of his rivals, is the party's foreign policy specialist. Despite his brilliance and charm, Wilson's foes, who call him "Little Harold," regard him as a slippery opportunist who backs only winning causes-though he miscalculated in 1960 when he attempted to grab the leadership while Gaitskell was fighting for his political life against the party's powerful anti-NATO bloc...
...wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares about an accident in which he killed a man with his Ferrari. When his mistress finds out what's on his mind, she urges him to grab the girl and "get it over with." He does. Whereupon the girl goes briskly back to school, the man goes briskly back to his mistress...
With sweep and color, the book tells how Lenin turned from a peaceful student into a fiery revolutionist after the czarist police killed his brother. In detail, the authors unfold the subsequent chain of tragedies: Lenin's minority-party power grab in 1917, Stalin's further perversion of Marxist ideals. Russia's nationalistic heroism in World War II and its postwar imperialism, the chilling struggle for Kremlin power after Stalin's death, and the sharp differences among Communist countries. Adlai Stevenson praises the book for its "new insights" and "fresh, factual appraisal...