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DIED. Dusko Popov, 69, who as a double agent for British intelligence during World War II warned that the Japanese were planning to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor and helped divert Nazi troops from the site of the Allied invasion at Normandy; after a long illness; in Opio, France. The Yugoslav-born Popov passed false information to the Nazis under the code name Tricycle, and was said to be a model for Ian Fleming's fictional spy hero James Bond...
...Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain of chemicals on residential areas. Instead, he opted for a slower and more laborious tactic: spraying individual trees from the ground, stripping them of fruit and releasing numbers of sterile male fruit flies to divert females from fertile males and thus keep them from producing offspring...
...real action is in the roomfuls of coin-operated electronic games designed to divert, amuse and swallow the quarters of customers waiting for their pizzas to cook. Even more entertainment is provided, free of charge, by troupes of singing, talking, joke-telling robots dressed up to resemble Muppet-like characters...
...generously muscled O'Keeffe utters not an intelligible word-only Tarzan's patented bull-elephant yodel. As for Bo's acting, she sucks in her stomach to look pretty and chews her cuticles to suggest fear. Alas, all the displays of Bo's body cannot divert attention from the ludicrous ineptness of the enterprise. Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling...
Meanwhile, on another front entirely, national leaders have sprung up who seem incapable of second thoughts. Rather than divert their gaze from the silent toy within their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world...