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Sunset Supper. The ants never let the caterpillars out of their care. During the day they keep the caterpillars in individual burrows a few inches long, and plug the entrances with pellets of earth. A few ants always stay inside to guard each precious caterpillar cow. The burrows are always close to the caterpillars' favorite food plant, a low white-flowered bush, but they may be as far as 50 ft. from the ant colony...
Portugal's ascetic Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar made one of his rare TV appearances last week (on film) to answer African demands that Portugal abandon its colonies. Having learned nothing and forgotten nothing, Salazar took a predictable stand: Portugal will go to war rather than budge in Africa...
...Please don't," said the gentle old humanitarian as the boy moved to brush an insect off his sleeve. "That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs." Thus, at his jungle hospital near Lambarene, in Gabon, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, 88, showed that the years have not dimmed his credo of reverence for life. His visitors were St. Louis Ad Executive Lisle M. Ramsey and Ramsey's ten-year-old son Max. Representing a citizens' committee affiliated with Religious Heritage of America, Inc., Ramsey had trekked to Lambar...
...book tells about the deadly effect of wholesale spraying on these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...
Audiberti recently became a contributor to the Comédie Française, thus assuring himself of a sort of down payment on immortality. Used to stumer fare, the mink-and-diamond Comédie audience could hardly believe what they heard in Audiberti's play, The Ant in the Body...