Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compared gurgled memories of How It Was the First Time. This is a fairly routine thing to discuss, I realize; in New York, Oxnard, Peru, Indiana, and bless it, Kaplan, Louisiana, hums of versation rising from cafeteria tables like locust clouds, and if you poll each little bug here's what he'll say: "The first time I saw Fred Astaire dance I was transfixed...after the first time I saw the Seventh Seal I couldn't win a chess game for a month...the first time I saw Abbott and Costello I nearly busted...
...crop of ten Syracuse lettermen include senior Jim "Bug" Williams. The Bug flitted for over 15 points a game last season. Notre Dame transfer Bill Drew and 6ft.8in. Louis Orr along with high school all-state hoopsters Hal Cohen and Cliff Warwell are also expected to spearhead the Orangemen's attack...
...reasons ranging from age to political weariness to lust for higher office, a record number of incumbent Congressmen?37 Democrats and 17 Republicans?did not even run for reelection. Perhaps the best-known member to retire was House Speaker Carl Albert, 68, the only nationally known native of Bug Tussle, Okla. The seat he held for 15 terms (but not, of course, his role as Speaker) will be more or less filled by State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger...
Does putting a bug on the cover of your magazine automatically place it in contention for Man of the Year...
STERILIZATION. Since the females of many insect species mate only once in a lifetime, bug birth rates can be reduced by tricking them into mating with males that have been sterilized by exposure to radiation. In the 1960s, sterile males were used to eradicate the resident screwworm fly population in Florida and large areas of the Southwest. In a somewhat similar program, Agriculture Department officials in California recently released more than 350 million sterile males and females in an apparently successful attempt to control an invasion of relatively small numbers of the Mediterranean fruit fly. The invaders, mating mostly with...