Word: bee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
Either system is wasteful: the bees are destroyed. But now. Dr. Rod O'Connor and a team of Montana State College chemists have developed a bee-milking method that allows not only the captured bees but wasps and hornets to produce their poison over and over again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging...
...foreign publications have been seized for political reasons.* In other cities, papers no longer are required to show galley proofs to the censors before going to press. One weekly is actually serialising the memoirs of Dolores Ibarruri, the fabled La Pasionaria of Civil War days, who is queen bee of Spain's exiled Communist Party; her very name until recently was taboo in the Spanish press...
...conservative Republican. Boyish Democratic Senator Frank Church, 38, won a second term. Greying Republican Len Jordan, 63, who was appointed to the Senate after the death last September of venerable fellow Republican Henry Dworshak, won a full term by defeating Gracie Pfost, a five-term Congresswoman and the Queen Bee of Idaho politics. But Idaho eyes were really centered on the campaign for Governor, in which Democrat Vernon K. Smith came out for legalized gambling à la Nevada. Incumbent Republican Robert E. Smylie hollered no so loudly that the issue buried all others. Smylie, without really trying, was elected...
Next, the Brattle. I apologize for not investigating the local media more thoroughly though I must point out that on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, in the teeth of the weekend, the Crimson's Brattle ads carried no mention of "Sunday." I'm sorry if I appeared to have a "bee in my bonnet" over this affair, but I still contend that most of the Brattle's patrons do not often read the Boston press...