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...afternoon last week Guide John Thompson Reeves went into his usual spiel to 34 Americans about the pair of mounted Life Guards in scarlet tunic, white knee breeches and shining armor: "If a wasp crawled up the nostril of one of the guardsmen he would not permit himself to move his hand." Pointing to Trooper John Tedbury, Guide Reeves said that his ebony boots are patent leather and his breastplate stainless steel and untarnishable, so that the guards never have to do any polishing...
...United Aircraft Corp. Wyoming-born Luke Hobbs, an engineering graduate of Texas A. & M., designed the carburetor for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. As chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets, but Hobbs soon lapped the field with his J-57, the engine that earned him the prized Collier Trophy in 1953, made Pratt...
...issued orders in his name that Cabinet officers accepted unquestioningly. "There are only two people who matter in the state-Ben-Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov's car and stung him on the eyelid. Argov lost control of the wheel and knocked down a cyclist. At the hospital he blanched when the doctor told him the cyclist, a father of four, might not live...
...ironing board and his working-class friend (Alan Bates) sprawls over the Sunday papers, Jimmy Porter looses his bilious scorn, like a revolving gun turret, on everything within range: art, religion, radio, Sunday, England and, again and again, his wife and mother-in-law. As minutely venomous as a wasp, as sweepingly violent as a whirlwind, his mockery sauced with self-pity, his growl subsiding in a whine, he brings to a vast repository of grievances a commensurate repertory of abuse...
Each stinging insect's venom, most researchers agree, contains four or five protein substances that can cause severe sensitization reactions. In combining any two insects, e.g., wasp and yellow jacket, two of the proteins are likely to be identical, while each insect will also have two or three different ones. Thus the polyvalent extract from four species probably contains a dozen proteins, should help a sensitized victim to build up immunity against...