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...Like crab grass in a suburban lawn, wild oats in a field of wheat are an insidious pest. The stubborn weed looks like wheat, grows like wheat, and is so closely related to wheat that neither cultivation nor common weed killers can hold it back without harming the wheat crop. But a couple of U.S. manufacturers have finally concocted the kind of agricultural magic that farmers have been seeking for centuries: a weed-killing chemical so selective that it can actually tell wild oats from wheat...
...other hand, the guide has also dug up many outstanding out-of-the-way spots, including Casa la Golondrina in Los Angeles, Spenger's Fish Grotto in Berkeley, and Bimbo's 365 Theatre Restaurant in San Francisco, starred twice by a taster whose appreciation for his crab bella vista was perhaps enhanced by the platoon of undraped chorines onstage. (The guide discreetly lists this as "elaborate entertainment...
...Freshman race was the big disappointment of the day for Harvard fans. After leading the field for the first half of the 2000 meter course, one of the freshman eight caught a bad crab, losing his oar. By the time the boat recovered they had lost more than a length on M.I.T. and could not gain it back by the finish...
...evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab grass with such insatiable preoccupation that he soon disappears down the block, leaving behind a trail of bald spots...
...some suburbanites' horror, there are also many householders who simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...