Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biological Time Bomb (World; $5.50), published last week, British Science Writer Gordon Rattray Taylor raises the specter of genetic warfare-one nation permanently weakening the people of another by infecting them with potent lab-made viruses carrying damaging hereditary material. Experiments have already shown that viral infections can make fruit flies fatally sensitive to such ordinary substances as carbon dioxide. M.I.T. Bacteriologist Salvador Luria speculates that some day a diabolical individual may be able to concoct a virus that renders men equally susceptible to specific substances. Then, says Luria, he could threaten to release the material unless the world...
...tons of cauliflower, 10,000 tons of apples, 2,000 tons of tomatoes and 723 tons of pears. Belgium followed suit, as did The Netherlands. This year, with much more bountiful harvests, the German government has refused "on moral grounds" to be party to the destruction of fruit. Government authorities are now weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents...
...Whiskered Bulbul, a crested Asian visitor freed from a rare-bird farm by a hurricane ten years ago, has begun to multiply. To the alarm of local growers, it has a marked preference for sweet, ripe fruit...
...below normal. But tomatoes were far and away the biggest casualties. California tomatoes intended for Campbell cans withered on the vine. Ohio patches went unpicked, and migrant workers hungrily moved on. Around Campbell's tomato-red brick home plant in Camden, N.J., the rich blaze of overripe fruit faded as mold crawled across the humid fields...
Waves of Mirage, Mystère and Skyhawk fighters swooped in on Salt, plastering the El Fatah headquarters with rockets and napalm, strafing other suspected El Fatah installations near by and setting asphalt blacktop boiling on roads for miles around. Citrus fruit sizzled on branches in neighboring orchards. When the planes let up briefly, the people of Salt streamed out to survey the damage and were hit by the second wave of planes that caught ambulances, taxis and a television mobile unit from Amman parked out in the open. Two dozen people sought shelter in a culvert, but an Israeli...