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ASMALLER number of biologists have also taken exception to the University's spraying program for the Dutch elm disease-a fungus infection imported from Europe. Two species of bark beetle known as Scolytus multistriatus and Hylurgopinus rufipes, inadvertently carry the fungal spores that cause the disease. B and G tries to control the beetles by spraying Harvard's clms in early April before the insects emerge from hibernation...
...bark beetles emerge in April and sometimes fly large distances before burrowing into an clm to lay their eggs. Since the insecticides do not penetrate the bark of the elms, the argument goes, the beetles are essentially safe before they emerge from the winter and once they enter the new tree. This leaves only a few days for the insecticide to hit the adults before they lay their eggs...
...local lawyer named Frederic Schwartz Jr. filed suit for kite privileges, the Park Police really cracked down. They arrested four kitefliers one weekend and eleven the next, using horses and motor scooters to enforce law and order on the grass. One sergeant leading a miscreant away was heard to bark: "The charge is kiteflying." (Penalty: a $10 fine for each offense...
...soundtrack which places each image at one inexplicable remove. Beginning with a parody of Hollywood climax music which comes to a syrupy end at the credits, then dribbles away in studio conversation, we are constantly set on edge by murmurs and whispering, grass too loud underfoot, a dog's bark that rises to fill the room...
Pennsylyania's upstart hockey team, which had climbed as high as third place in the standings with three consecutive league victories, experienced the basic realities of competition last week and the ensuing two losses put the Quakers bark into fifth place...