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Ethereal Delights. Rattlesnake venom, says Klauber, has, at various times, been considered a cure for epilepsy, bronchitis, pneumonia, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, cholera, yellow fever, leprosy and elephantiasis. Pills made out of the poison glands ground up and mixed with cheese were once prescribed for palsy and typhus; they also give a feeling of "ethereal delights." Rattlesnake oil was once a popular remedy, too, but both venom and oil have now fallen out of medical favor. The chief modern use for the venom is to immunize horses so their serum can be used to cure rattlesnake bites...
...newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia. He proves to be an out-of-bounds native, and they suddenly learn that for months their farmhands have been smuggling fellow blacks into Johannesburg. "You would think they would have felt they could tell us," says the wife bewilderedly. A Johannesburg housewife is about to leave on a European...
...reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...
Died. Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey, 62, zoologist, statistician, and top-ranking authority on gall wasps, whose team in 1948 turned out the bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, later (1953) scored again with the companion volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; of a heart ailment and pneumonia: in Bloomington, Ind. (see MEDICINE...
Died. John Carl Williams Hinshaw, 62, Republican work horse on the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, authority on aviation; of pneumonia; in Bethesda...