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...Army planes sprayed gallons of DDT on the New Jersey salt marshes, habitat of the famed Jersey mosquito. Officials were alarmed because the DDT killed fish, and they found the mosquitoes, multiplied by heavy July rains, tough customers. But by week's end 10,000 acres had been, sprayed and millions of mosquitoes had been killed...
...Hill (20th Century-Fox) is a document of social insignificance as foggy and expensively furnished as the austere eminence for which it is named. A sentimental saga of class war in the early IQOOS, its only sunlit moments occur when the plot and the famed habitat of San Francisco's 400 are abandoned and the film goes slumming in the gaslit environs of the Barbary Coast, a region by now as familiar to most cinemaddicts as their own backyards...
...Joseph Stalin were among the rare birds whose watercolor portraits (after John James Audubon) were shown in Manhattan's Raymond & Raymond gallery last week (see cut). Their natures were suitably described by their caricaturist, 31-year-old San Franciscan Justin Murray. Sample: "Protectus Defendus (Joseph Stalin) -RANGE: Unpredictable. HABITAT: Enjoys sub-zero temperatures and thick, slimy mud. Remarkably mobile, he is frequently found far behind his enemies' nests. IDENTIFICATION: A large, tough bird-much tougher than anyone imagined. VOICE: Seldom heard. FOOD: Feeding habits are almost entirely beneficial to man, since its diet is largely composed of destructive...
Pointing out that Russia, after 20 years of official co-education in secondary schools, has recently changed to a policy of segregation, Sorokin contended that probers of the human habitat and life are sure to follow him in concluding that high school pupils are not yet ready for the difficult complexities involved in co-education...
...Lactobacillus acidophilus (normal habitat: milk) is present in all decaying tooth cavities. This fact, well substantiated by research in the U.S. and abroad, may explain why only civilized people experience tooth decay...