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...world's land snakes, the Australian tiger snake is rated as about the most deadly. It needs to inject only 2 mg. of venom to kill a man, whereas the notorious hooded cobra must inject about 20 mg., and a big rattlesnake as much as 140 mg. Fortnight ago, Kenneth Earnest, 22, who helps run his family's reptile farm in Buena Park, 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a run-in with a greenish-grey and black-banded tiger snake. He almost lost...
Though he applied rapid first aid (tourniquet, a suction cup to draw out the venom), he developed a savage headache within minutes. His parents rushed him to Katella Hospital in nearby Stanton. As the evening wore on, Ken's mouth tightened up. He had difficulty talking, then in swallowing, finally in breathing. Through the night, doctors gave him small doses of cobra antivenin...
Russell, one of the world's top authorities on snakebite, took over and transferred Ken to Los Angeles County Hospital. Fortunately, the San Diego zoo had some tiger-snake antivenin, and Dr. Russell got it fast. Even then, massive doses could not immediately halt the venom's attack on Ken's nervous system. His throat was cut open to pass a tube down his windpipe. Soon he was in an iron lung. The venom attacked the blood. Ken had to have five transfusions, plus injections of clotting drugs to control internal bleeding...
...efforts remain in vain, we will be led to conclude a unilateral treaty of peace with the Democratic German Republic." And what of Western rights in Berlin and the null allied garrison? Khrushchev acted as though the garrison was the only instrument of Western power, and his venom matched his error. "If they are to prepare for war," he bellowed, "I wish they were half a million. It would be that much easier to leave them there and encircle them...
Operating his prose sausage machine at full tilt, Author King finally seems to squeeze only venom out of all the joy, beauty and wonder he professes to find in the world...