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...Gebhardt had good reason to suspect snakes. The Culex tarsalis mosquito, principal carrier of the WEE virus, hatches out in swamps. Early in the spring, when birds are still scarce, the female mosquito lights on the nearest creature for the blood meal she needs before she can lay her eggs. Dr. Gebhardt figured that the victim might be a snake just emerging drowsily from hibernation. Starting in 1961, he hiked miles through swamps and caught plenty of garter, gopher and blue racer snakes, but found virus in only...
...evidence that mosquitoes really bite snakes, Dr. Gebhardt has tested the idea in his laboratory, where skeptics have now seen a dozen or more mosquitoes perched on the head of a single snake, eating heartily. Unlike horses or humans, the snakes apparently suffer no discomfort and develop no encephalitis...
...variegated nosegay of American letters, the Deep South's poetry of decadence stinks like a long-since-wilted magnolia, but Author Wilkinson magically refreshes its fragrance with images new as dew: "A green snake weaved around the rocks, rolling like a liquid in hot glass until the grass pulled it in and it disappeared." Language like that explains why the late Randall Jarrell described Miss Wilkinson as "the most talented writer of prose I ever taught...
Portugal is seized by excitement. During the matches, the streets in Portuguese towns are deserted: everyone huddles near radios or TV sets. Last week's victory over North Korea paralyzed downtown Lisbon as fans, waving flags and shouting "Viva O Portugal!", snake danced through the streets...
...battery) approach to the tactics of the Viet Nam war was honed in jungle warfare against the Japanese in World War II and the Communists in Malaya. Their credo: avoid trails, avoid villages, avoid resupply; slide into the jungle like a snake and hide, then terrorize the enemy at will. "Fortunately, we've trained and equipped ourselves for such a war as this in Southeast Asia for years," says Brigadier O. D. Jackson, commander of the First Australian Task Force in Viet Nam. Whereas U.S. commanders resupply their units every other day in the field, the Aussies slide into...