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...Upheld a jury verdict awarding $625,000 damages to a man whose legs were amputated as a result of an infection traced to an insect bite. James Gallick, a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crew foreman, had been bitten by a "large insect" (species unknown) while working near a pool of stagnant and putrid water on railroad property in Cleveland. In his suit, Gallick held that the insect would not have been there to bite him if it had not been for the pool. The railroad's lawyers argued that the connections if any, between the water and what happened...
...poisons man has concocted to combat his insect and rodent enemies, thallium sulfate is one of the most potent. Vermin can hardly stay away from it; they go right on nibbling baits containing the chemical until they have absorbed a fatal dose. Trouble is, children are likely to do the same, because thallium-sulfate baits are often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between...
Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. A brilliant guide to the nightmarish parables of a writer who saw individual man as a helpless insect lost in the mass world he has helped create...
...timeworn style, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung's lieutenants blame drought, hailstorms and insect blights for cutting the ration from a manageable 20.65 ft. in 1957 to its present handkerchief size. But Red China's frayed look also owes much to a deliberate decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result...
Such a book might have been an eloquent attack on the insect society that civilization sometimes threatens to become. But the author is almost never in control for longer than a paragraph or two. Burroughs cannot sustain his nightworld, as Joyce did in sections of Ulysses, and as Novelist Ralph Ellison did in the whole of that remarkable book, Invisible...