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...through the predawn hours, the mob squatted on the tracks, stopped 650 trains, and hustled the motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students...
...feeding white mice to the snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child...
Russell, one of the world's top authorities on snakebite, took over and transferred Ken to Los Angeles County Hospital. Fortunately, the San Diego zoo had some tiger-snake antivenin, and Dr. Russell got it fast. Even then, massive doses could not immediately halt the venom's attack on Ken's nervous system. His throat was cut open to pass a tube down his windpipe. Soon he was in an iron lung. The venom attacked the blood. Ken had to have five transfusions, plus injections of clotting drugs to control internal bleeding...
...Because cobra venom is chemically akin to the tiger snake...
Liniment & Snake Weed. He went to Arizona, then to Oklahoma and Kansas, where he had to beg for food. He tried being a cowboy in Wyoming, a homesteader in Nebraska, a farm hand in Missouri and a stock farmer in Texas-all attempts petered out. In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed. At 45 he bought a ranch in the Panhandle that quickly became part of the great Dust Bowl. Finally, in 1946 he turned...