Life Magazine, March 1, 1963 - Snakes

Fearsome, fascinating world of snakes and why they scare you, photo essay by Nina Leen, great pictures of African egg-eating snake doing its thing, Pacific rattler is eaten by a King snake. Hot war alarm bell in the arctic, weird eyes and ears keep watch for us against Russian rockets, Camp tuto in Greenland, Goose Air Base in Labrador, Dye Main DEW Line station. Momentary millionaire, Stanley Karnow. Full page Bell Telephone System ad touts their support of first statewide closed circuit educational television system in South Carolina. Venezuela's pro-US president Betancourt comes calling. Miners brawl over disputed pay dirt, in Utah's Topaz mountain area with Anaconda Corp. Mihaly Igloi's students slaughter track records in Santa Clara, California. Helen Gurley Brown and book “Sex and the Single Girl.” Mortimer Caplin, internal revenue chief, goes after the expense account. New fashion collections put Galanos and Norell on par with any designer in the world. Nice full page color Old Crow whiskey ad with illustration by C. Jones of Walt Whitman receiving a gift from Francis Wilson. New York Section, when present, includes : Strike GHQ says "Go for Broke", Bert Powers, International Typographical Union president of Local 6 goes to Colorado Springs, Union Printers. Crazy two page photo of a car partly suspended over a hole in the road at the corner of Broadway and Bleecker, Robert Sussman, plus another car in hole, license plate 3V-103. Short piece and photo on funeral of policeman Vincent Zichettella, resusitation of young Denise Williams by Howard Campbell and Lawrence Sagona. Full page ad for Cameo super-support stockings. Children's theater, plays like "Beauty and the Beast." Public School 20, I. Edwin Goldwasser, Rivington Street, new P.S. 20 on Essex Street. Full page Lufthansa ad. The Fire Department ousts 12 artists from loft-studios on the Lower East Side, landlord Seymour Finkelstein, painter Mary Slote, others. Comedienne Hermione Gingold writes a book. 1.0