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...Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories of Stamford, Conn, cautioned teenagers against carving initials on trees, explaining that fungus and insects used them as invasion points...
...science, says Dr. Wiener, has suddenly appeared. It deals with control mechanisms, and Dr. Wiener has personally named it "cybernetics" from a Greek word meaning "steersman." It is growing like a parasitic fungus, drawing on techniques already developed by other sciences, from mathematics to psychology...
...Buerger's disease is unknown. Many, but not all, patients are cigarette smokers (smoking constricts the small arteries). The King's doctors are reported to have ordered him to stop his heavy smoking. Most patients with Buerger's disease also have acute or chronic epidermophytosis (fungus diseases of the skin like washerwomen's itch or athlete's foot). The disease occurs most frequently between the ages of 20 and 45 (the King will be 53 Dec. 14). Doctors do not know why, but men victims outnumber women...
...actidione has been proved only against powdery mildew of beans, tomatoes and roses under greenhouse conditions. But agricultural scientists are excitedly testing it on other plants infected with a long list of other fungus diseases. If actidione kills the smuts, blights, rusts and wilts of the major farm crops, it will have a tremendous effect on the world's food supply: fungi probably steal as much food from man as all the world's insects...
Miss Stenz treats baldness with two solutions (one red, one white) developed by her partner, Biochemist Irwin J. Bash. The solutions, says Bash, make the scalp unpalatable to the fungus. Some of the satisfied customers who believe that their scalps have been de-fungused and re-haired by Stenz & Bash: Cinemactors Jimmy Stewart, Dick Powell, Gig Young, Gene Kelly...