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From his 115-acre, upstate New York farm, Breed Improver and erstwhile Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace, 72, came to the defense of the harried incumbent, Orville Freeman. Also taking credit for an old idea and phrase while he was about it, the ex-Vice President wrote to a columnist last week: "[Freeman's] statements thus far have been all to the good. In fact, like his boss, he has adopted some of my statements like 'We should look on the farm surplus as a blessing instead of a curse.' You, of course, remember my book...
With the British passion for obscure enthusiasms, British entomologists have argued for years about the birthplace of the migratory moths that wing into Britain each spring. One theory is that they fly all the way from African deserts, where they maintain their winter breeding reservoirs. Another is that they breed somewhere along the way, so that only later generations ever reach England. In last week's Nature, Geneticist H.B.D. Kettlewell of Oxford offered strong proof for the direct-from-Africa theory-using an atom bomb explosion to trace the flight of the gentle moth...
...military authority of the scholar. It is the scientist with his slipstick who measures the effects of untried weapons in future battles. It is the professor at the blackboard who defines the dilemmas that complicate each new scheme for building a practical deterrent. One acknowledged dean of this new breed of cold-war scholars is Political Scientist Henry A. Kissinger. 37. Director of Harvard's Defense Studies Program and Pentagon adviser. His new book. The Necessity for Choice (Harper; $5.50). has become required reading in the Pentagon. State Department and White House...
Last week Sister was stacked up against 2,547 other no-pants dogs at the Westminster. Awaiting her turn, she sat patiently in a tiny cell in the Garden basement. In the ring, she coolly outperformed 70 members of her own breed and a batch of other dogs classed in the "toy group'': Chihuahuas, affenpinschers. Mal tese, Italian greyhounds, griffons...
...cocker, a dachshund and a boxer. After frequent consultations with his wristwatch. as if timing his decisions to television, Judge Joseph E. Redden, himself a terrier fancier, pointed to Sister. Said Redden: "It resolved itself into a choice of the two poodles. There was remarkably little difference in their breed characteristics. In my opinion, the toy was better in the head, and that was the deciding factor...