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Aggressive Males. One of these incompatible pairings consisted of a strain from Fresno, Calif., and a Burmese strain that transmitted filariasis, a tropical disease that causes chills, fever and headaches and can lead to elephantiasis. Last March, after breeding a host of strong male mosquitoes from insects caught around Fresno, he flew them to Burma and released 5,000 a day in the isolated village of Okpo. "Those huge males," Laven says, "were quicker and stronger than the indigenous breed." The Fresno males immediately began outdoing their Okpo counterparts in mating with Okpo females-which promptly began laying infertile eggs...
...best hope for coping with everything from urban sprawl to water purification to figuring out how a diocese should deploy its priests. Aerojet-General, principally a rocket-engine maker, has contracted to build two automated post offices, and has begun planning new methods of solid waste disposal for Fresno (Calif.) County. Lockheed, though still the top Pentagon contractor, with $1.5 billion worth of 1966 plane and missile orders, is battling General Dynamics and Litton Industries for a Navy ship contract?to the dismay of the nation's proudly inefficient conventional shipbuilders. Cleveland's TRW (nee Thompson Ramo Wooldridge) is designing...
...Fresno State, and the college's Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke announced unhappily that he was forced to suspend the admission of all new students until the financial picture was clarified. Kerr then ordered a similar hold on all university admissions...
Immediately after the election, he installed a staff in Sacramento to prepare gradually for the change in government, has opened other offices in Los Angeles and Fresno, and is planning a fourth for San Diego. He has nearly completed the personal staff he will take with him to Sacramento; it impresses most observers as being eminently capable, with few ideological overtones. To preserve peace within the party, he has set up a statewide G.O.P. screening committee, with representatives from all the factions, to suggest nominees for other major posts. To help him find candidates for the hundreds of second-level...
...Paint throwing humiliates many but persuades no one. Like draft-card burners, these people are not physical cowards, as they have often unjustly been called. They are moral cowards who reject the moral responsibilities of war and the moral responsibilities of serious political opposition. FRANCIS ANDREW HART Assistant Professor Fresno State College Fresno, Calif...