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...most effective insecticide application." At that stage, however, a simpler tactic may help: encircling tree trunks with sticky bands that trap the caterpillars as they scurry up or down. One difficulty: as the bands become overloaded, the caterpillars evade capture by clambering over the bodies of their trapped brethren...
...this Bond still manages to limp along, devoid of any real earth-threatening terror, but still--like almost all of its brethren Bond bonanzas--managing to be a satisfying entertainment. It's not the best, lying somewhere above the dreadful Moonraker, yet not as good as the hot-stuff Spy Who Loved Me. It's more in about The Man with the Golden Gun or Live and Let Die range. Perhaps one shouldn't complain too much about the frailty of the assumption of British hegemony that supports Bond. The nation of William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Rex Harrison...
...uphold it. To some, this restraint betokened a lack of drive or leadership. Says one law professor: He was a real disappointment. He was a responder. Adds Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at Georgetown Law Center, "He didn't have a hell of a lot of influence on his brethren...
...Supreme Court disagreed. Entertainment, wrote Justice Byron White for six of his brethren in the seven-man majority, falls "within the First Amendment guarantee," as do political speech and ideological speech, and "nudity alone" cannot strip away this "mantle." Noted the court: "The zoning power is not infinite and unchallengeable." Nor was the court impressed with Mount Ephraim's justification for the ban-that it would avert parking problems and the need for additional police protection-since the town allowed a variety of other commercial enterprises. The ordinance was overly broad, said the court, in that it banned...
...holds a Yale doctorate in ethics, worked on prisoner resettlement in Europe after World War II, wrote an influential 1957 book called Ethics and United States Foreign Policy, and has taught politics at three universities. He was for 37 years a minister of the pacifist Church of the Brethren. He worked as a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1960, and was on the staff of the liberal Brookings Institution for twelve years. Since 1976 Lefever has headed his own conservative think tank in Washington, the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "I'm a confirmed do-gooder," said Lefever...