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...read, mostly without comment, "Still Falls the Rain," "Three Songs from the Honey Hive" and "The Chain Gang," a poem she said she never had recited before...
...that Novikov was needed else where, and that it didn't much matter who was the Kremlin's office boy in Washington. Novikov speaks good Arabic. He was Minister in Cairo during the war, and he got behind the scenes in the Arab states. With the Arab hive buzzing over Palestine the Kremlin might well have a new job for Novikov...
Chief trouble with bees as breeding material is their system of mating. Mating never takes place within the hive. Indoors, drones (males) and virgin queens ignore one another completely...
When a queen is ready to mate, she picks a sunny day and takes off from the hive in a fast, rising flight. All the drones in the neighborhood drop whatever they are doing and follow. The union is consummated high in the air, often miles from the hive. The lucky drone (who is killed by the experience) may come from any bee colony within a large area...
Sweet Revenge. In Schenectady, a bar fly, refused a drink for being too deep in his cups, staggered furiously out of Wahl's Grill, returned a few minutes later, plunked a hive full of honey bees...