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...Range. On a recent, typical duty day a wing of B-47s left Ohio for duty in North Africa; at almost the same moment a squadron of F-84s started from Virginia for Okinawa. Each flight stirred up a wasp's nest of Air Defense Command interceptors (practicing supersonic passes at the outbound planes in carefully planned defense exercises), air refueling tankers far-flung in Atlantic and Pacific bases, air traffic controllers, air detection and warning networks, air-sea rescue squadrons, and MATS units hauling spare parts, supplies and technicians...
...hide his love of geometric form ("The fragile snowflake appears in more variations of form than any kind of 'permanent' sculpture"), but his take-off point is the human emotion. His Primordial Figure (see cut) is a kind of family totem, with the outline of a wasp-waisted male figure with hands upraised superimposed on a skirted female figure. To critics who complain that his finished work looks more like aerial rigging and radar antennas than sculpture, Lippold replies: "Our faith is in space, energy and communications, not in pyramids and cathedrals...
...prey in a proper state of torpor, the caterpillar-hunting wasp sometimes shoots the caterpillar 13 times, once for each segment. That deadeyed Annie Oakley, the beetle hunter, can bowl over her hard-shelled victims with a saddle shot that pierces a tiny chink in the beetle's armor and penetrates precisely to its central nerve-control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant...
...HUNTING WASP (240 pp.)-John Crompton-Houghfon Miffin...
Thursday. The Washington Post wasp-ishly called Ike's press conference "a miracle of confusion" (but far more confusion was to come). The first child in the Southeast to die of polio after receiving Salk vaccine was Eugene Allen Davis Jr., 2½, of New Orleans, grandson of famed Cancer Surgeon Alton Ochsner. But New York City parents showed their continuing confidence in the vaccine: fewer than 1% withdrew permission for their children to be inoculated...