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...started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An optimistic intelligence summary said that German power was "ebbing." The attack was to be timed with the Anzio landing, 60 miles behind the German front at Cassino, trapping the Germans between two fires. Instead, it was the Allies who were trapped. This book ably retells the story of the trap and of what it took to pry it open again-in one of the great battles of World...
...Trap at Night. At Cornell University Medical College, Drs. Mary H. Loveless and William R. Fackler have worked out a painstaking method of trapping bees and wasps by chloroforming them in the nests at night, storing them in a freezer, and performing delicate surgery to remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere...
Like fishermen trolling in strange water, atomic physicists send instruments groping through the earth's upper atmosphere to trap whatever happens to come by. Last week scientists at the University of Minnesota reported that they had caught a whopper: a helium nucleus moving a shade slower than the speed of light with a force at least 150,000 times as powerful as the greatest energy produced by man-the 6 billion electron volts whirled out by the University of California's bevatron...
Unfair Warning. In Kalamazoo, Mich., John Carter and a friend were fined $25 each for hobbling orderly law enforcement, after police found that just before a radar check point they had posted signs reading "Speed Trap...
...Snout. Beneath the farcical, Playwright Behan's point is as serious as that of Polemicist Koestler, and even before the action builds to its sickening offstage climax with the drop of the trap and "the screeches and roars of them" in the rest of the prison, it is apparent that playwright and polemicist agree. The prisoners laugh at their keepers, at themselves, even at the Quare Fellow's predicament. In this way, Brendan Behan laughs at the society that thinks that by taking men's lives, it improves itself. At the grave, which they have eagerly...