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...dean of apiarists concluded that the Carniolan bee is the most energetic, produces the most honey. The Italian bee he found less vivacious and easily distracted. But Von Frisch was quick to warn against comparing the behavior of his honeybees with the human inhabitants of the same regions. "Look at the German bee," he said. "It shows distinct signs of sloppiness and lack of industriousness. I intentionally refrain from drawing parallels between the social habits of bees and the human race, except when I can prove that bees are more democratic. On the whole, drawing such conclusions should be left...
...Force partisans warn direly that the U.S. had better mobilize if it is going to scale down the threat of nuclear retaliation. In an attempt to bring the matter to a head, the Air Force leaked the Rusk memo, and it got twisted to make it sound as though Rusk favored abandoning nuclear strike power. Braced with the leak at his news conference. President Kennedy denied any lessening of emphasis on nuclear weapons ("When-if we do reach a change in our reliance on new weapons, we will make it very clear''), but affirmed that he wanted...
...were demanding that certain professors and books be thrown out. "My business would be wrecked," said he, "if those people got on the phone and kept on yelling that I am a Communist because I give money to the school." Society members in Nashville, Tenn., started telephone campaigns to warn homeowners that some of their neighbors were suspected Reds. The project with current top priority is the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, and activities in a dozen cities range from the "spontaneous" circulation of petitions to a rash of letters to newspapers, and a HELP IMPEACH EARL WARREN banner...
...week of maneuvers, heard the U.N. orders echoing over the lake from a loudspeaker, jumped to the conclusion that a U.N. force was about to arrive to disarm them. Rushing over with rifles, the Congolese held the twelve startled Tunisians at gunpoint, took their weapons and then departed to warn their superiors of the U.N.'s "intentions...
...year ago, appalled by the number of fraudulent Turner water colors that were cropping up in London, the museum's keeper of prints and drawings, Edward Croft-Murray, decided to warn the public by putting on a special show of fake Turners along with some originals. The idea quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus...