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...world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them pregnant females sitting by their stringy webs of coarse white silk. By reasonable estimate...
State denied that there was any connection between Tito's attack and approval of the deal but offered little positive explanation of the latest gift. The 500,000-ton shipment, worth about $30 million, will be sent to Yugoslavia as a surplus crop under terms of a law that provides for payment in local currency rather than in dollars. Under this law, Tito has already received some $64 million worth of agricultural commodities this year, raising his total haul in U.S. assistance since 1949 beyond the $2 billion mark-more than Belgium, Norway or the Philippines has received...
Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...
...despite its defense of the jet sale, the Kennedy Administration has taken the overall question of aid to Yugoslavia under close review. President Kennedy was angered by the hostility Tito displayed toward the West at the Belgrade conference of neutrals last month. Requesting a 500,000-ton shipment of surplus U.S. wheat to supplement their poor harvest, Yugoslav officials were informed last week by U.S. Ambassador George Kennan that no such commitment would be made-at least for the time being. Clearly, the choice was up to Tito: whether to be at least reasonably friendly toward...
Wozzeck, Good Soldier Schweik and Private Hargrove. Bone-tired from flying endless missions (the required number is always raised every time he becomes eligible for Stateside shipment by the evil Colonel Cathcart, who wants to be a general), Yossarian decides one day to go crazy. Doc Daneeka, the flight surgeon, agrees that he has to ground anyone who's crazy; all one has to do is ask. "And then you can ground him?'' Yossarian inquires. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch...