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...this too fulsome a list of attributes for one writer? Then say of White what he said of the spider-heroine of Charlotte's Web: "She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both...
...their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
...whereupon Mohammed Mossadegh was to take over the government. Meeting in secrecy, Mossadegh's lieutenants had worked out the grand plan. First they formed a secret National Resistance Movement, uniting, among others, discontented rich and powerful bazaar merchants, university hotheads and rebellious army officers of the secret Black Spider Committee. Then they got together with the outlawed Communist Tudeh party, setting up an all-powerful six-man committee to run the revolt...
Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan, the spellbinding leader of British Labor's left wing, not only believes in nationalizing industry; he believes that socialism should exude public ownership as naturally and surely as a spider spins a web. In the Labor Party and in the trade unions, which dominate the party, maturer minds prevail. Only a militant minority shares Nye Sevan's fervor, and it is losing ground...
...until the middle of the 19th century that builders fully understood and applied the use of steel in tension on a calculated basis . . . Roebling began to hang the Brooklyn Bridge on a spider web of steel cables in 1868 . . . Major William LeBaron Jenny designed the first true steel-frame building in Chicago in 1883 . . . In the spring of 1896, Frank Lloyd Wright built a wooden windmill tower at Spring Green, Wis. It was slender and 60 ft. high, built of two-by-fours and wood sheathing anchored to a heavy stone foundation. The lightweight wood construction was designed in perfect...