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...pistil of an alfalfa flower is a strong spring held in tension by two "keel petals." When the bee alights on the petals, the pistil snaps up and out. This process ensures cross-fertilization by showering the bee with pollen and spanking other pollen loose from the bee's body...
...often the flower plays too rough, and the snap of the pistil knocks the bee for a loop. Tough wild bees will take this punishment. Gently bred tame bees will not. They sneak up on the flower and steal its nectar stealthily without springing the pistil. The flower thus remains unfertilized and bears no alfalfa seed...
...Nebraska and other regions that produce alfalfa seed, wild bees are getting scarcer. In recent years, the yield of seed per acre has been steadily going down. Dr. Hixson has been crossing alfalfa strains, breeding them for gentleness of pistil. He hopes to develop flowers with so soft a wallop that even the timidest bee will not be afraid to alight on them...
George Killion, onetime editor of the Sacramento Bee, later a legislative consultant for Safeway Stores. Killion went to Washington as assistant to the Petroleum Administrator for War, became Pauley's assistant during the 1944 campaign, later succeeded him as Democratic treasurer. In 1947, the Maritime Commission made him president of the Government-owned American President Lines at $25,000 a year...
...friends gave me their hands with an air of pity." Bitter and hurt, he left his native land and went to Paris. There he soon found kinder friends, produced the brooding, mystical plays and essays (Les Aveugles, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Life of the Bee) which made his fame worldwide. Critics praised him. He won the Nobel Prize...