Word: poisoner
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...when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort of mental telepathy which enables them to communicate knowledge and to broadcast alarms throughout the rat population...
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...
...Raven (Westport International), a cross between a whodunit and Spoon River Anthology, is an excellent story idea and an extremely good movie. The story: someone in a French provincial town begins writing painfully wellinformed poison-pen letters, signed "The Raven." Gradually, The Raven's malice eats into every chink and crevice in the town's uneasy conscience. By the time the culprit is exposed, the community is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown...
...Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...
...Chicago fortnight ago, DePaul's coach decided to administer some of its own poison to Iba's Aggies. At one point in the game, a DePaul player knelt down on the floor and put the ball in front of him, and dared the Aggies to come after it; instead they stood in their defensive positions. With tactics like that, DePaul out-slowed the Aggies, 32-31. The defeat only convinced the Aggies that slow basketball is winning basketball. Last week the Aggies sludged past Tulsa (42-27), and gave arch-rival Oklahoma U. a lesson...