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Neither Traps nor Poison. Rats never wash, says Specialist Nicholes, and seem to delight in filth. They are generally smelly, covered with running sores, fleas and lice. In a pinch they will eat their own young-or other rats caught in traps. But when there is food, a rat somehow contrives to inform his friends, and shares generously. They never lay up food for emergencies, trusting their victim, man, to do it for them...
Some up-to-date orchardists attempt to solve the problem by pinch-hitting for the bees. They collect pollen of an acceptable type and dust it from airplanes upon the choosy flowers. Orchardman Leo C. Antles of Wenatchee, Wash, prefers the natural way. He has just acquired a patent on a persuasive device. He puts the proper pollen in a little container (U.S. Patent 2,435,951) and attaches it to the beehive. The bees, forced to struggle through the Antles gadget on their way to work, carry to the flowers exactly the kind of pollen that the pistils need...
...eastern Europe, has cost many a man his head in Communism's march to power. He "discovered" a plot against the state. Equally ominous was the act of General Ludvik Svoboda. As Minister of National Defense he was listed as a man of no party, but in the pinch his advice to the troops read: "The Army must seek a stronger brotherhood with the Soviet Union...
...possible that Lou Little, crafty professor of football at Columbia, may be holding up the works at the H.A.A. offices. Here's why. Like a baseball manager juggling pinch hitter against relief pitcher or vice versa, Bingham may be waiting to see what happens at New Haven, where Little is supposed to have the inside track. "We want to make certain," he said yesterday, "the man we choose for the Harvard job will match the ability or potential ability of whomever Yale picks...
Britannia now at the crossroads stands. Shall she pinch and scrape on a widow...