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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIGHTNING BUG by Donald Harington. 212 pages. Lawrence/Delacorte...
Lightning Bug is a modest but totally satisfying novel. Like the little boy Donny, the author spent his childhood summers in the Ozarks, and to him the men of Stay More are still gods. In his private time capsule, the arrival of the mail and the ice peddler or-evil day -the revenuer become the rituals of an obscure epoch. Like the late James Agee, he reveres the most ordinary aspects" of the lives of unexceptional people, and with lyrical comedy and irony, he makes his joy infectious...
Addis Attaché. Proxmire's case is strongest when most specific. Among other examples, he cites a $4 billion cost overrun for the Minuteman II ICBM; a quadrupling of the original estimated price for the nuclear carrier Nimitz; hundreds of millions misspent on the bug-infested Sheridan and MBT-70 tanks; the $2 billion jump-to more than $5 billion-in the cost of C-5A Galaxy cargo planes...
...other discovery was essentially an accident. Williams' group found that a European bug would grow fairly well in the Bio Labs up until the last larval stage. Then instead of becoming an adult, it would become a giant larva and eventually die without reproducing...
...TURNS out that the balsam fir used to make the paper towels produce a compound very similar to the bug's juvenile hormone. But unlike the silkworm hormone, it hits only a single family of bugs. If nature can provide such highly specific insecticides through evolution, Williams argues, man should be able to develop some himself...