Word: backlashers
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...Backlash. To save their trees, some people tried using a biocide called Bacillus thuringiensis, which infects the caterpillars with a lethal virus. Smelling like musty hay, "BT" unfortunately may cause difficulties for people with allergies. Other tree owners turned to home remedies. They swatted the bugs with shovels, burned them with blow torches. Mrs. Marie Rusicka of Marlboro, N.J., actually spent three hours every day hand-picking the bugs off her trees. To keep caterpillars on the ground from climbing to the greenery, some citizens wrapped tree trunks with greased burlap bandages, then every evening stamped out the squishy bugs...
...Bristol, Conn., conservation commission received a box of squirming caterpillars from an angry resident. Someone else called him one night to complain "The noise of the worms eating is keeping me awake." This month three aspirants for political office in Bristol announced that they would run on an ecological backlash ticket. Their theme: Spray pesticides next year...
...Viet Nam War has meaning, dislike of hippies and "experts" with questionnaires, a passionate (and heartening) fear of going into debt, a distrust of the educated, the fancy and the self-important. They also have little patience (like Coles himself) with catch-all locutions: "the Silent Majority," "white backlash," "Middle Americans." Still, the book is very successful in demonstrating that even on the gut issues of prejudice, pocketbook and politics their views have remarkable breadth and subtlety...
...been an Army practice in the past, even though the Green Berets made their reputation by doing just that -along with more dramatic feats of counterinsurgency-in Viet Nam and other underdeveloped nations round the world. But the Berets' luster has been dimmed by scandal, the war backlash and the withdrawal of the last remaining Special Forces units from Viet Nam last February. From a wartime peak strength of 9,000 men, the Green Beret force has been whittled down to 6,000. Consequently, two pressing concerns within the corps have been how to sanitize its image, and what...
Signs of Worry. Next week, when 7,000,000 Italians go to the polls in local elections in Rome, Genoa, Sicily and other areas throughout the country, the M.S.I, is expected to be the beneficiary of a backlash vote in response to the rash of recent disorders. Not that the neo-Fascists are about to take over city hall-anywhere. Their hopes lie rather in denying a majority to the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, forcing the party instead to look to the right to form coalitions. The Christian Democrats insist that they will never team up with...