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Soprano Rosa Raisa of Chicago Civic Opera Company revealed that since last summer she has been constantly guarded by armed escorts because blackmailers demanded $500. Their threat: "To put you in a cellar where an asp will drink ten gallons of your blood." Motoring near Vallejo, Calif. Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., wearing his customary high boots, waded into a muddy slough to help extricate two women whose automobile had skidded from the highway...
...normal venom kills with more or less speed. Cleopatra and Charmian dying within a few moments of their asp bites was no Shakespearean fairytale. The quietness of their death, however, was. Venom attacks the nerves as well as muscles. It causes profuse bleeding...
...Cleopatra's asp was probably a horned viper (Cerastes cornutus...
...death leaves leaderless the Wafd, Nationalistic Party. Though his methods may be criticized, he stood as the very symbol of modern Egypt, the Father of a country that had not known freedom since Cleopatra was bitten by an asp...
...said of the asp he presented...