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Though Lockheed Aircraft Corp. is the nation's biggest defense contractor, not a demonstrator was in sight at its annual meeting last week-for good reason. The meeting was held outside Los Angeles in a vacant helicopter hangar surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire. Shareholders had to pass through four checkpoints manned by helmeted and pistol-packing guards. Company officials patrolled nearby rooftops, and two tow trucks and a fire truck were on hand in case of trouble. The 630 stockholders who attended, many of them present and former Lockheed employees, roundly applauded the management-despite Chairman...
However, the Commission recommended that Carbaryl use "be immediately restricted to prevent risk of human exposure." Last year, a Harvard contractor sprayed some 25 gallons of Carbaryl, and elm sprayings are again scheduled for early June and possibly later this summer...
This year, a B and G contractor sprayed 90 gallons of methoxychlor, a chlorinated hydrocarbon that does not accumulate in the natural food chain as its close relative, DDT, does...
Later in the summer, a contractor also sprays for the clm leaf beetle, Galerucella xanthomelaena. This beetle does not spread the elm disease itself, but large infestations of these insects may weaken the elms and reduce their resistance to the fungus...
...Mattachine Society, one of several groups defending the interests of homosexuals, has encouraged them to bring legal action against the Government and publicize their own cases. One who has done just that is Benning Wentworth, an electronics technician employed by a New Jersey defense contractor; for nearly four years he has been fighting a Defense Department attempt to revoke his security clearance. He challenges the traditional assumption that all homosexuals are vulnerable to blackmail and therefore unsuited to jobs that give them access to secret information. How can he be blackmailed, Wentworth argues, when he openly admits that...