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...training. After serving as an infantry captain in World War I (in which he lost an eye), he became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless acts. He created the notorious "People's Courts," "simplified" the judicial system by drafting a decree empowering the Minister of Justice to "deviate from any existing...
...general, rats study men more closely than men study rats. Mr. J. L. Nicholes, rodent specialist, is not only rough on rats (he claims to have killed 25 million), but .he is one man who has had his eye on them. Recently he published a book, Vandals of the Night (Publication Press, Pasadena; $2.50), which contains the hoarded fruit of his long, close scrutiny...
Rats, says Specialist Nicholes, were once wild creatures, living on fruits and seeds. But at some remote date, far back in human prehistory, rats made a momentous decision. "Why," they asked themselves, "should we work so hard for a living...
...rising star, flourished. At present the black and brown rats are more completely domesticated than horses or cattle; there are none at all in the original wild state. They are so accustomed to living with men that the best scent lure for attracting them, says Specialist Nicholes, is the man-scent...
...their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms throughout the rat population...