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Between the lines of these personal dilemmas, Author Williams sketches in the snake-pit struggles of Copperheads, scalawags and carpetbaggers, the cancerous ministry of fear between black and white that gradually chokes all love. As gory as any 30-page stretch in recent literature is the book's account of the slaying of some 50 Negroes in the Mechanics Institute massacre...
...Scientific Approach. In Point Mugu, Calif., Chemist John Tabor stepped outside his laboratory door, spotted a 4-ft. rattlesnake poised to strike, reached for a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher, sprayed the snake into a frozen state, then carried it inside and killed...
...Hecht thinks there is a future for writers on TV: "It's a sort of wondrous version of the medicine show. You do a dance, sing a bird song, and then you pitch the snake oil. But the important thing is that it is not the entertainment that the sponsor is selling, but the snake oil or the beer. Just as long as his beer sells-which might be because it's a hot summer-he will let the writer have the upper hand...
Clutching a snake-headed bamboo cane, a slender, bespectacled Asian in a double-breasted blue suit and a green felt hat arrived in Washington last week; his presence brought to 78 the number of diplomatic missions in the capital. Ourot R. Souvannavong, a 45-year-old jurist, is the first minister to the U.S. from the Oregon-sized, jungle-blanketed kingdom of Laos in French Indo-China...
Martha's basement garage was made over into The Snake Pit, Washingtonese for the dark and cozy Mayflower Hotel cocktail lounge,* where lobbyists and politicians meet when the sun gets low. An eight-piece orchestra was hired, and a seven-foot-high fence was built (at a cost of $1,000) to bring order into the lives of six uniformed District of Columbia cops and four private eyes flown down from New York to keep out the uninvited. (Martha likes the fence and thinks she will keep it as a permanent addition to the property...