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...Castillo's ensemble in fur-a bulky opossum jacket with a Davey Crockett Hat and an umbrella case in matching fur. We never used to know what to do with an umbrella case once it was peeled from the umbrella. Now we know-it can play 'possum...
...remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere in the U.S. by closely related species). As with most Hymenoptera, the female of the species is the deadlier-the male has no sting...
Many Venoms. The company uses one of the common, hairless wasps (Polistes fuscatus), which usually nest under eaves or porches, in barns or garages; a hornet (Dolichovespula arenaria), which is distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...
Each stinging insect's venom, most researchers agree, contains four or five protein substances that can cause severe sensitization reactions. In combining any two insects, e.g., wasp and yellow jacket, two of the proteins are likely to be identical, while each insect will also have two or three different ones. Thus the polyvalent extract from four species probably contains a dozen proteins, should help a sensitized victim to build up immunity against...
...world-renowned director Tyrone Guthrie proved to be a gifted comic actor as well at his talk in New Lecture Hall last Thursday. After being introduced (or "eulogized," as he put it), he asked permission to doff his jacket, did so, undid his tie, rolled up his sleeves and unbuttoned his shirt. With navel displayed, he gave his ideas on "The Director in the Theatre," after assuring his large audience that "there ain't no one right way of doin' anything...