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...from. SESP's new well, safe drinking water is carried through Brazilian-made pipes to faucets spotted across the town. There are SESP-built privies behind the houses. DDT has even made it possible to sleep without a mosquito...
Communists must have snickered. As every good Communist knows, '"deviationism" is the primary sin in Moscow's decalogue. But Henry's little puff of DDT seemed to please Rex Tugwell, who said he was now "very happy...
This summer the pleasant pattern for contemplation was threatened. The municipal health department decided to attack the fly and mosquito population by air-spraying the town with DDT solution. Private goldfish fanciers were outraged at the danger to the fish population...
...patronage developed more than 20 rare varieties of wondrous beauty . . . Many old established residents . . . have kept up the cultivation of goldfish in their private pools. In my courtyard there are several dozen fish, including the rare Red Dragon-Eye and the Five-Flowered Phoenix ... If this ridiculous foreign project [DDT spraying] is carried out, it will mean the end of all Peiping's goldfish. Then what man will be able to sit under his peng on a warm summer day and study the gentle undulations of fins and tails? The very thought of these beautiful water creatures turning...
Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist...