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...pain it has caused, the Caribbean flare-up of dengue has hadsome worthwhile effects. It has spurred authorities in both Jamaica and Puerto Rico to step up their neglected anti-mosquito spraying. And Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 as a starter on a $45 million campaign to wipe out Aëdes aegypti completely...
...fourth raid on Cuba in less than a month. In the first, a plane strafed and bombed a sugarmill in Camaguey province. Three nights later, the Castro government complained, a lone bomber, lights out and engines feathered, coasted over the southern coastal town of Casilda. Parachuting a yellow flare to light up the target, it launched three rockets at the town's oil storage tanks, setting fire to a railroad tank car. In another night attack, two landing craft slipped up the Santa Lucia estuary to the heavily guarded Patricio Lumumba metal-processing plant. A raiding party scrambled ashore...
Stevenson was referring to a bloody flare-up on the Israeli-Syrian frontier touched off, Israel charged, when ten Syrian soldiers sneaked across the Jordan River and the demilitarized zone and machine-gunned two 19-year-old farmers irrigating a kibbutz field north of the Sea of Galilee. The Syrians denied the killings, accused Israel of sending 15 armored cars charging across the border...
...Chicago code has worked well restraining headline-happy editors. Trouble is, the editors have been going it one better. In the most recent racial flare-ups (TIME, Aug. 9), only the most persistent newspaper reader in Chicago could find the brief, terse ac counts almost invariably buried deep in his newspaper. During a week of nightly rumbles near the Negro ghetto of Chicago's South Side, 178 arrests were made, and seven policemen were injured. But after the second night of brawling, the morning Sun-Times merely tucked a few paragraphs at the bottom of its obituary page...
While physicists are debating the cause of the flares, practical solar meteorologists are learning to identify solar weather conditions that may produce them. First, says Dr. James Van Allen, discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belt, a sunspot must be visible. A group of several sunspots is even more likely to produce a flare, but not all do. Often they fade away without a blowoff...