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...Cobus Bodenstein, Johannesburg Sunday Times: "I took a few overalls of the whole scene. I was wondering what to do next. ((Then)) I heard a shot and saw a head jump. I lifted the camera and started shooting until the ((shooter)) turned on us, screaming in Tswana, pointing the rifle at us. Ten of his colleagues seemed to cock their rifles. So we ran away. I knew that lunacy was playing a big role . . . If any journalist, especially a white journalist, would have so much as touched those people, we would have died with them. I don't believe...
...California's Stanford University last week Biologist Dietrich Bodenstein displayed a winged insect which was half immature pupa, half mature butterfly. This monster was a by-product of Dr. Bodenstein's discovery of the agency which causes the final metamorphosis from pupa to adult. It is a growth substance generated in the head which reaches the tissues through the skin. It may be a hormone, but since hormones have not previously been found in insects it may also be an enzyme or some sort of nerve stimulus...
...Bodenstein cut off the circulation of the substance back of the pupa's head.* The head and shoulders metamorphosed normally, the mouth lost its caterpillar jaws and acquired a honey-sucking proboscis, the shoulders sprouted wings. But the body, deprived of the stimulus, remained frozen in the pupal stage...
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