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Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
...prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...things happen in fruit orchards from indiscriminate use of DDT. The woolly aphis is not bothered much by DDT, while the Aphelinus parasite, which normally discourages woolly aphis, is wiped out entirely. In orchards where the red spider has been kept under control by its enemies, "trees have been literally scarlet with red spiders after being sprayed with...
...bite of a black-widow spider, which is common all over the U.S., is seldom fatal-but the pain is well-nigh unbearable. The victim suffers from something called arachnidism. He thrashes around in agony for one or two days, hurts for several more. His abdomen becomes as rigid as a board. His legs draw up in a series of spasms. None of the 60 remedies so far recommended by the medical books gives very notable relief from the spider's bite...
...guided torpedo, "the Spider," electrically controlled by means of a thin wire leash, which could be made to change its course or depth or even leap out of the water like a porpoise...