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...that allows not only the captured bees but wasps and hornets to produce their poison over and over again in sufficient quantities for research. A whole container of bees is anesthetized with a whiff of carbon monoxide, and then, one at a time, the insects are wrapped in a sash of aluminum foil that is connected to a source of high-voltage, low-current electricity. A brief shock causes the stinging muscles to contract and excrete venom...
Paying his respects to the Amy Lowell Keats Room and the Richardson collection, he drew away the crimson sash and opened the glass door of the Emily Dickinson Room furnished with Miss Dickinson's own furniture and piano, her library, her family portraits, and a sampler she sewed herself. In an august bureau against the far wall, Gridley located the autograph manuscripts of her poems, left just where they had been found at her death. Now, of course, the pages were enclosed in leather folders, but each folder also contained the original strings that Emily Dickinson used...
...associates. The warmest and most unexpected leavetaking came from Charles de Gaulle, whose attitude to NATO has not been exactly ardent. At a ceremony in the Court of Honor of the 17th century Hotel des Invalides. General de Gaulle draped over General Norstad's shoulder the crimson sash and golden star of the Legion of Honor, its highest award. Like a courting giraffe, le grand Charles bent to give Lauris the buss that only one hero can bestow upon another...
...they had protested each major Nationalist infringement on freedom in the past seven years, the Black Sash members-largely women of English stock whose husbands oppose the government-once again vowed to stand stern symbolic watch until Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government forced the sabotage bill through to the inevitable successful vote. In the autumn chill, Black Sash Chairman Jean Sinclair, a 54-year-old Johannesburg housewife, and her handful of matronly recruits were swathed in overcoats as they lit their symbolic torch of freedom and posted placards reading "Reject the Sabotage Bill." Promptly, young pro-Nationalist hooligans...
...asked that seating be integrated, but the broadcasting authorities coldly refused. The maestro's opinion: "Music takes precedence over politics. I don't think about these things because it is outside my competence. I have so many other things to think about." In any case the Black Sash women turned up at dawn the next morning to relight the torch on the city hall steps...