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...vast scale of the Kikuyu activity got into the headlines in Kenya last week with the accidental crash of three trucks. All were jampacked with Kikuyu, and survivors said that they were traveling to or from Kenyatta's home. Thirteen passengers were killed, 105 injured. The presence of so many Kikuyu on the road to the President's house raised suspicions that the tribe was engaged in a clandestine operation. In Parliament, members of Leader Oginga Odinga's opposition party charged that the Kikuyu were engaged in oath taking on the grounds of the President...
...Crawford S. Holling, 38, was once immersed in rather abstract research at the University of British Columbia -mathematical models of the relationships between predators and their prey. "Three years ago, I got stark terrified at what was going on in the world and gave it up." Now he heads the university's interdepartmental studies of land and water use, which involve agriculture, economics, forestry, geography and regional planning. "What got me started on this," says Holling, "was the profound and striking similarities between ecological systems and the activities of man: between predators and land speculators; between animal-population growth...
...Eugene P. Odum, 55, of the University of Georgia, is a specialist on estuarine marshes and author of the standard college textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology. "We have got to stop thinking of ourselves as being in the growth stage of civilization and realize that we are in the mature stage," says Odum. "Up to now we have been a consumptive, destructive civilization. We must now learn to recycle and reuse." Under his direction, the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology is studying how tidewater marshes help to produce 90% of the country's seafood...
...district city councils and health departments. To fight rats effectively, both city governments obviously have to cooperate. But the Texas side of town has budgeted only $4,000 for rat control while Arkansas begrudges $1,500. Says Doyle Purifoy, in charge of the Arkansas program: "We've got the rats on the run." Presumably to Texas...
Soundings have already begun to find out whether they will give the current plans a better reception than those of 1955 got. Lost week, several University officials, including Goyette and Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Relations, met with residents of the neighborhood...