Word: botanist
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...market that has often proved treacherous for TV: cul ture and fine arts. In the first seven days, viewers were almost buried under good shows, or, at the very least, good intentions. Shakespeare, Beethoven and Napoleon were among the big names; Calamity Jane, Quentin Crisp and an odd English botanist named David Bellamy were among the smaller ones. Not always successful, CBS-C's first week was nonetheless al ways impressive...
...ship thousands of the plants in a week. They wind up in plastic pots at supermarkets or in the homes and gardens of the well-to-do, from Nagasaki to New York to Nuremberg. The trouble is that many of the plants are taken and transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family may be the most endangered species of all major groups of plants." Cactologists list 90 native kinds as endangered or threatened. Even the commonest specimens, like the rainbow, rattail and small-barrel cacti, are swiftly disappearing from...
...University recently offered a tenured position in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology to Klaus Raschke, a botanist at the University of Gottingen, West Germany...
...famed botanist William Seal, a pioneer in the development of high-yield corn hybrids, began a bizarre experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...
...study widely-music, dressmaking, metal crafts and premedical subjects-and in 1935 was married to an Austrian businessman. But two years later she went off on vacation to Kenya where, she recalled later, she "fell in love with this wonderful country," and stayed. A second marriage, to Botanist Peter Bally, foundered in 1944 on safari, when Joy met a British-Irish game warden named George Adamson. They were married later that same year...