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...remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
...folk art reflects a uniquely lyrical view of the world. Music is its basic medium, having evolved from the brassy early days of rock 'n' roll into the poignant, pithy beat of folk-rock (or "Rock-Bach" as the West Coast enthusiasts call it). From the controlled venom of the Beatles in a song like Eleanor Rigby ("Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door") to the Eliotesque elegance of Simon & Garfunkel's Dangling Conversation ("Like a poem poorly written/We are verses out of rhythm/ Couplets out of rhyme . . ."), the subject matter goes...
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A visit to "America's Jungle Wilderness-the Everglades" includes a stop at the Miami ''Serpentarium, where they engage in such ticklish tasks as extracting the venom from a 15-ft. king cobra...
...lost in industry than do accidents. Even so, total U.S. outlays for arthritis and rheumatism research come to little more than $15 million a year-as against $300 million poured down the drain in desperation for quack "remedies," ranging from diets to sitting in old uranium mines, from bee venom to honey and vinegar. The troubles are classified in four major groups...
...Venom Aplenty. In orchestrating this remarkable account of Germany's rise from defeated enemy to much courted ally, Adenauer's tone is dry and professorial, often lacking in the details of the humanism that his C.D.U. programs espouse philosophically. But there is venom aplenty-directed mainly at the British Labor government of Clement Attlee (which Adenauer accuses of unfairly aiding his German Socialist opposition in the immediate postwar years) and at Socialist Party Leader Schumacher. Adenauer scarcely mentions his successor as Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard, who during these years as Economic Affairs Minister was laying the groundwork...