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...NOTEBOOK: Billy Doyle and Jeff Musselman will take the mound for Harvard today at B.C. Crimson 5, Engineers 3 HARVARD MIT ab r h bt ab r h bi Weller lf 2 2 1 0 Marlinellirf 5 0 1 0 Vallone cf 5 0 0 0 Koh dh 3 0 0 0 Bauer 1b 5 2 3 4 Woffe 1b 3b 4 1 3 0 Farrell 1b 5 1 3 1 Kosowsky cf 4 1 1 2 Marlell c 4 0 1 0 Huffman if 4 1 0 0 Allard rf 4 0 0 0 Lubiak...
...Harvard bats silent until only two outs away from victory. In a last-ditch effort the Crimson managed to load the bases in the bottom of the seventh, but Northeastern reliever Dave Seropiant induced Allard to ground out to second to end the game. First Game ab r h bt Sullivan,cf 3 2 1 0 O'Malley c 4 2 2 1 O'Leary dh 3 1 1 0 Carr,dh 4 0 3 3 Carey,3b 3 0 2 0 Bates,if 3 0 1 0 Gulney,if 1 1 1 1 Vallen...
Lately, subtler forms of warfare have been introduced, including sprays that contain Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), a bacterium that kills various moth and butterfly larvae. It, too, should be applied early. Another new experimental spray spreads a virus that afflicts the gypsies with fatal wilt disease, so called because the dying caterpillar shrivels into a kind of inverted-V shape. More diabolical are traps scented with sex lures to attract male moths. Scientists have also been distributing different types of insects-wasps, flies, beetles-that prey on gypsy moths at various stages in their life cycle...
...Backlash. To save their trees, some people tried using a biocide called Bacillus thuringiensis, which infects the caterpillars with a lethal virus. Smelling like musty hay, "BT" unfortunately may cause difficulties for people with allergies. Other tree owners turned to home remedies. They swatted the bugs with shovels, burned them with blow torches. Mrs. Marie Rusicka of Marlboro, N.J., actually spent three hours every day hand-picking the bugs off her trees. To keep caterpillars on the ground from climbing to the greenery, some citizens wrapped tree trunks with greased burlap bandages, then every evening stamped out the squishy bugs...
...method, which cost $2.8 million to research and perfect, machines bombard the molten glass with microscopic metallic particles as it passes across the tin bath. With an investment of only $36,000, glassmakers can add the tinting process to a regular plant, color as much as desired bt the continuous ribbon of glass. Says Sir Harry Pilkington, 62, chairman of the 141-year-old family-owned company: "We already knew that our float process leads the world in the manufacture of this type of glass. As a result of our new discovery, we hope demand will increase enormously...