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...room for a single Times casualty. Detroit's two other dailies, the evening News (circ. 733,583) and the morning Free Press (573,273), were able to absorb only 29. Another 23 managed to stay in journalism by migrating, mostly to smaller papers, among them the Fresno, Calif., Bee (circ. 111,812) and the Rochester, Mich., Clarion, a weekly of 4,900 circulation...
...years of the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee, girls have been the winners almost 2 to 1. Last week in Washington, the championship went to a boy: John Capehart, 12, a Tulsa neurosurgeon's son who competed against 49 girls and 23 other boys picked from 5,000,000 entrants. Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart's winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine (of or pertaining to emerald...
...push out of its home islands. The biggest of Hawaii's Big Five, Castle & Cooke has long concentrated most of its assets (now $117 million) in sugar land. Last week, mainland-born (Oregon) MacNaughton announced that C. & C. had completed arrangements to take over Dole Pineapple and Bumble Bee Brand Seafoods. Next MacNaughton targets: to decide whether to take up a Castle & Cooke option on 125,000 acres of Peruvian timberland, buy more food companies, get listed on the New York Stock Exchange
...same sort of differences exist, said Von Frisch, in interpreting the other basic dance steps-the "round dance," conducted without posterial shimmying, and the "sickle dance." a semicircular pattern accompanied by a slightly wagging rear end-that locate the pollen. Moreover, he added, when an individually marked bee of a primitive species was introduced into the hive of an Apis mellifera, the breakdown of communication was almost complete...
...dean of apiarists concluded that the Carniolan bee is the most energetic, produces the most honey. The Italian bee he found less vivacious and easily distracted. But Von Frisch was quick to warn against comparing the behavior of his honeybees with the human inhabitants of the same regions. "Look at the German bee," he said. "It shows distinct signs of sloppiness and lack of industriousness. I intentionally refrain from drawing parallels between the social habits of bees and the human race, except when I can prove that bees are more democratic. On the whole, drawing such conclusions should be left...