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...empty, Stewart crawled through a barrage of bullets to retrieve ammunition that his helpless buddies could not fire; when grenades landed spluttering in their midst, he hurled them back; when American reinforcements counterattacked, Stewart rushed to press home his one-man war. He died in a Viet Cong spider hole, while the men he gave his life to protect were carried to safety...
Menace though it may be, the black widow spider is something of a has-been. For potency of venom, a little-known spider called the brown recluse is now No. 1. Also called the fiddler be cause of a violin-shaped mark on its head, this species is spreading across the Central and Southern states...
...brown recluse bites only when it is disturbed and feels threatened. But if it is exploring bed clothes at night, that moment may come when a man simply rolls over in his sleep. Because the bite is inconspicuous and the spider scurries away, the cause is often unsuspected. At first the venom causes only a stinging sensation, without much pain. Two to eight hours later, the pain may become intense, accompanied by nausea, joint pains, severe abdominal cramps and fever. The wound blisters, is surrounded by a hemorrhage. An ulcer may develop, followed by gangrene. The venom appears to contain...
...SPIDER'S WEB, a chiller by Agatha Christie, with Joan Fontaine, will be luring audiences to the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass., from Aug. 7 through Aug. 12. From there, it goes to the Pocono Playhouse, Mountainhome, Pa., Aug. 14 through Aug. 19, and the Candlewood Theater, New Fairfield, Conn...
Yelping Dogs. Richard is a hunchbacked Renaissance Stalin with a monstrous thirst for power. He terrorizes less by his inveterate plots than by his malignantly charged presence, mesmerizing those whom he would murder. Called "a bottled spider" and a "bunch-backed toad," he is nonetheless poisonously fascinating. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he woos and wins the Lady Anne over the coffin of her husband, whom he has murdered. A scene that seems logically inconceivable becomes psychologically astute as Richard, who has never wept, weeps; who has never knelt, kneels. With the reckless audacity of his passion...