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They laughed when an Illinois farmer reported that he had significantly increased his crop yield by serenading corn plants with Rhapsody in Blue. And few believed Indian Botanist T.C.N. Singh when he said that a shrill electric bell speeded the germination of seeds and that classical Indian violin and flute selections promoted crop growth. Or the Australian fruit farmer who swore that he had raised bigger and better bananas by bombarding them with a loud, constant bass note broad cast from loudspeakers set up among the trees...
...academic recognition of Berkeley as a finer all-round school on the graduate level than Harvard. Massachusetts now pays full professors an average $17,300-and President John Lederle is an aggressive raider of private-university faculties. Among his recent catches: University of Chicago Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone, N.Y.U. Botanist Oswald Tippo, Yale Physicist Robert Gluckstern and lohns Hopkins Astrophysicist John D. Strong, who brought $1,000,000 in equipment with him. "We're not trying to create an Ivy League college or a Big Ten here," says Lederle. "We'll take the best of both...
...slur was enough to make every Cornhusker huff-if not puff. In a lengthy report on U.S. marijuana laws, the Wall Street Journal last week reported that the green-flowered cannabis weed from which "grass" is produced "flourishes in temperate climates; one botanist estimates that 17% of the field foliage in Nebraska is marijuana." Replied outraged Nebraska agronomists: "Utterly ridiculous . . . absolutely crazy . . . silly...
...catch the taped lectures at their convenience, then meet in small groups to discuss the topic with a live professor. After putting some of his lectures on tape, Wisconsin Zoologist Donald H. Bucklin reports that he has time to see many more students for consultation in his of fice. Botanist Walter B. Welch of Southern Illinois University, who found that taping lectures was "one of the hardest jobs I ever did," says he covers much more ground in the tightly organized tapings...
Although it will take several months to discover the full impact of the space trip on Biosatellite's passengers, some of the results were immediately evident after the parachuting capsule had been plucked from the air over the Pacific by a C-130 recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J. Lyon took a look at Bio-satellite's wheat seedlings and found that they had germinated, sending out roots and sprouts that were normal in form but sprawling in unusual directions be cause of the lack of gravity. North American Aviation Plant Physiologist Samuel Johnson opened the pepper plant...