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...book, Bees (Cornell University Press; $3), Professor Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich sets out to improve on Poet Isaac Watts's description...
...each hive commune, says Dr. von Frisch, a few bees are honey scouts. They patrol the neighborhood looking for new-opened flowers. Their big, compound eyes see well, but they do not see what human eyes see. Blind to red, a bee sees a clear red flower as grey. But at the other end of its color spectrum, a bee can see ultraviolet, to which human eyes are blind...
...does it tell and what does it tell? By elaborate experiments over many years, Dr. von Frisch deciphered some phases of bee language. A scout bee, he says, can tell its fellows what kind of flower contains the honey-trove, in what direction it lies, and how far away...
Died. Daniel Frisch, 52, Palestine-born president of the Zionist Organization of America and a General Zionist world leader; after an operation for a liver ailment; in Manhattan. A retired investment broker and onetime executive of an Indianapolis salvage firm, Frisch campaigned for strong ties between the U.S. and Israel...
Died. Hartvig Frisch, 57, Danish Minister of Education, a onetime Social Democratic leader in the Rigsdag (Parliament), one of 49 signers-of the United Nations charter at the San Francisco Conference; of cancer; in Copenhagen...