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Stinger. In Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Perry Hand, 31, admitted that she had put lye in her husband's whisky, explained that she wanted to "make him quit drinking...
During the week's uproar. President Sukarno seemed the most relaxed Indonesian. In Tokyo, on the last leg of a jaunt through Asia, he went with his staff to a geisha party at the Tskuki No lye (House of the Moon) and renewed a fond acquaintance with a pretty, 29-year-old geisha named Keiko Isozaki, whom he had known during World War II in the Japanese-occupied Celebes where she was entertaining the Japanese troops and he was a Japanese supporter. Next day, Sukarno's Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon...
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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...
White Lightning is produced from a mash of 85% corn. 15% malt -no rats, snakes or lye. It is aged less than 30 days, and then the aging process is stopped by storing it in uncharred. paraffin-lined barrels. At $4.40 a quart ($2.25 a pint), it costs less than most aged amber whiskies but slightly more than moonshine ($3.50 to $4 a quart). North Carolinians snapped up the first consignment."Man," said one satisfied customer last week, "that's just like I was raised...