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Notable is a notorious den on Upper Plympton Street, where a CRIMSON photographer, disguised as a opium smoker with a camera hidden in his pigtail, snapped this picture. Police threaten to resort to DDT bombs unless the nest of uncleanligodliness is cleaned up by the end of the week...
...stepped two young men in work clothes, followed by two well-dressed young women. In excellent English they explained that they had refused to join the Czech Communist Party and wanted refuge. The two men had worked for the Schiidlings-bekamp-fungsinstitut (Institute for Fighting Vermin), spraying plants with DDT from the copter. Instead of finishing their DDT run, they simply headed west. One of the girls had also worked for the institute, the other was just a friend. No romances, they said...
...field supervisor of mosquito control for the city health department, Pest-Hunter Duclus uses modern methods. All through the summer mosquito hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis...
...Around Richmond, Va., health workers sprayed DDT, poured oil on ponds and waterholes to stem a mosquito-borne outbreak of eastern encephalitis (brain inflammation) which started a scare. Two encephalitis deaths were proved, four more suspected. ¶ New U.S. polio cases reported last week totaled 773, up 30% over the week before-and not far behind the 802 tallied in the same week last year. ¶ The German-founded Schering Corp. (run by the Office of Alien Property) became the world's second producer of cortisone,* began distribution of Cortogen, a preparation for eye diseases. ¶ A Navy doctor...
Veteran French troops in Indo-China have a nickname for General de Lattre de Tassigny: "DDT." Puzzled De Lattre asked a correspondent: "Is it sympathetic?" Last week De Lattre, informed that it was sympathetic, gave Communist guerrillas behind his front lines the DDT treatment. In a vast, sweeping movement in the Red River delta, he surprised and stormed several fortified Communist villages. At week's end the guerrillas had lost 300 dead, 600 prisoners...