Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria forsk) has made its name dread to generations of African and Middle Eastern farmers from Biblical times down to the recent destructive plague of locusts in Iran...
Last week Dr. Andrew G. Hamilton, 46, head of the biological department at London's St. Thomas' Hospital Medical School, announced a long-suspected explanation of the desert locust's strange ways. The female desert locust, he discovered, is parthenogenetic, i.e., capable of producing offspring all by herself. In the last year, Hamilton has raised four generations of female Schistocerca in specially built hutches on the hospital roof. Regularly, his succeeding generations of females, without male help, have produced and laid their eggs deep in the sand of their hutches. All their offspring are female locusts...
Hamilton's locust parthenogeneticists proved themselves, in addition, sturdier and longer-lived than locusts born as the result of male interference, but they produce about one-third as many offspring. This explains the long periods when the desert locusts lead scattered and peaceable lives...
...Living Desert (Disney). Walt Disney's first full-length film of nature in the raw; seldom mild, often cruelly beautiful (TIME...
...Beauty. In 1953 Walt Disney turned his camera from paper animals to some real ones and, in a series of natural-history films culminating in The Living Desert, dragged new kinds of beauty out of the depths of nature. In cartoons, Disney was challenged by Stephen Bosustow and a company of imaginative young artists. The Tell Tale Heart and The Unicorn in the Garden did their subjects from Poe and Thurber proud, and set new landmarks in the animator...