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Sledgehammer v. Gnat. The Department of Agriculture is trying to banish the fire ant. But its latest plan for doing it is under sharp attack by three conservationist groups-the Environmental Defense Fund, the National Wildlife Federation and CLEAN (Committee for Leaving the Environment of America Natural). The Department's program calls for discharging 450 million pounds of a bait containing 1,350,000 lbs. of Mirex-a powerful chlorinated hydrocarbon-on 150 million acres of land in nine Southern states. In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington, D.C., "on behalf of all citizens...
Charlie, on parole, conceives a plan to steal $4 million from a stronghold in Turin, Italy. Mr. Bridger finds it a simply wizard idea and puts up expense money. Alas, Charlie's elephantine ambitions arise from a gnat-sized intellect. His gang is so crooked that none of them can drive straight. They wreck cars, argue with each other, assault fat ladies on the Turin buses and infuriate the Mafia by treading on its turf. Throughout, Charlie's eyes remain at half-mast; his lassitude finally lulls the crooks, the polizia-and the audience. Caine and Coward play...
...needs to have his name placed on the ballot there as an independent presidential candidate. The feat is probably beyond Wallace's band of eager amateurs, but he was drawing sizable audiences, as he had the week before on the West Coast. If nothing else, the natty gnat promises to be a disruptive influence...
Learning & Doing. Her nicknames run the gamut from "gnat" to "bear cat." Equipped with a Gallic temper, Cathy chews out anyone in her way with a remarkably complete selection of four-letter G.I.-English words seasoned with a few choice five-letter French specialties. Once she used them a bit too freely with Marine brass and was banned from the I Corps area for six months. The ban was lifted only two weeks before the 881 assault...
...Island has elected only Democrats to Congress since 1940 and, in proportion to its size, gave John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson the biggest majorities of any state. Yet in a special election last week to fill a vacant seat in the Second Congressional District, the Republicans came within a gnat's eyelash of winning...