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...fourth straight year (and fourth time in thoroughbred racing), U.S. horse-players bet more than $2 billion. Of the $2,231,528,140 total wagered at pari-mutuel windows in the 24 states where on-course betting is legal, the states themselves took a $164,418,294 bite. Most voracious were the New York State tax collectors, who swallowed $43,177,361, more than one-quarter of the national tax total...
...British as they do not like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time I Saw Paris, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Last week Vicky derided Tory Leader R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister...
...Lethal Bite. Hummel's victim was Jim Hudson, 49, a bullnecked, 200-lb. Negro who had lived by violence and could only die by it. In 1932 Hudson began serving a life sentence for the holdup-murder of a White Cloud, Mich, country storekeeper. In 1936, with a blackjack made of blue denim wrapped around small stones, he attacked five guards at the Southern Michigan State Prison at Jackson. A year later he jumped three more officers in the Jackson yard. Suffering from syphilis, for which he adamantly refused treatment, he once infected a Jackson guard with the disease...
Popular remedies for rattlesnake bite are as numerous as the diseases that venom was once supposed to cure. Klauber lists onions, garlic, chewed tobacco, ammonia, kerosene, gunpowder, nitric acid, lye, quicklime, and freshly killed chickens, split and applied to the wound. All such nostrums are useless, as is the classic remedy, whisky, which Klauber thinks has killed many snakebite victims who would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should...
...these only 30 die. But this record, says Klauber, should not encourage amateurs to get familiar with rattlesnakes. Even men who handle them professionally, he says, are often bitten. An apparently dead rattlesnake should never be touched carelessly; it may revive and strike. Even a severed head can bite for half an hour...