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...Serpiente!" ("You snake!") he hissed at grinning Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto, then whirled upon Spain's great radical Republican, Don Manuel Azana. "Hombre de talento pero desalmado!" ("You man with a brain but no soul...
...London three statesmen have been wrestling with dollars, pounds and francs as the mythical Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons once wrestled with snakes which crushed them for the crime of defying Apollo. Recently the London News Chronicle, which favors cartoons of classic inspiration, printed a Laocoon group (see cut) in which the currency serpents coil around British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, James M. Cox, U. S. Delegate and Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain...
...impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...
Between Goose Creek Mountains and Snake River in southernmost Idaho lies Oakley, a farming town of 882 on a feeder line of the Union Pacific. Remote, obscure Oakley last week became an important place on the world's medical map. Investigators have definitely proved that what mottled the teeth of Oakley children, by injuring the buds which lay down enamel for the permanent teeth, was fluorine in the drinking water. The teeth looked chalky, were pitted and stained with yellow spots...
...birth-month of great U. S. men* has been February; birth-month of most U. S. snakes is July. Last week as the nation squirmed with snakelets, no mother-snake was prouder than Grace Olive Wiley of Minneapolis. She takes care of all the 300-odd live snakes, lizards, fish, birds, bats which Minneapolis keeps in a wing of its public library, but rattlesnakes are her specialty. Some seven months ago she set out to placate Sahuara, one of her male rattlers. First she soothed him with a cloth on the end of a stick. Soon she was able...