Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cytoplasmic incompatibility can be widely used to control mosquitoes, Laven says, but he cautions that total eradication of mosquito populations might have unpredictable ecological effects. To fill the gap that his control technique may create, he is attempting to produce a mosquito strain that will not transmit filariasis-and hopes eventually to develop a breed that simply will not bite humans...
...Singer Harry Orlando, as Frank Sinatra. With that discovery, all public interest in Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used to distribute books published by Bernard Geis...
...give you my sons." More than 8,000 young Americans volunteered to go to Israel, and 200 of them managed to get in before the U.S. State Department barred travel to the area. They were expected to help with the harvest that is due soon and to fill in for men at the front. Many Americans already in Israel fled the area (see following story), but a goodly number insisted on staying and helping. Cabled a Brooklyn girl to her worried parents: SINCE WHEN HAS OUR FAMILY BEGUN TO RAISE CHICKENS...
...Kirkland, which remain active throughout the year. Dunster features Sunday afternoon sightreadings in the library to which anyone with an instrument and a music stand is invited. At Kirkland, the proximity of dining hall and junior common room has inspired a successful series of after-dinner concerts designed to fill the gap between dinner and an evening at the movies...
...list with Hallelujah Baby is bound to be a little perverse. Nevertheless, a shift is clearly discernible, not among the artists but in their audience. Unlike television fads -- detectives, cowboys, spies, camp heroes -- theatrical styles are not plotted out in advance. There is no planned obsolescence. Seasons fill an audience demand; they are based on what went well the last time around. Currently, the audience wants social commentary--in one form or another...