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Addition of fluorides to water supplies, in the proportion of one part to a million, has been shown in long-term scientific studies to cut down tooth decay and to be harmless. But in many areas, fluoridation has been opposed as premature or worse yet as "socialized medicine" or "forced medication." Of eleven communities that had the question up for a vote last week, nine voted against fluoridation, notably Atlantic City, N.J. (pop. 61,667), Salem, Ore. (43,140), Greensboro, N.C. (74,389), Birmingham, Ala. (326,037) and Fremont, Neb. (14,762). Approving fluoridation: Mountain Home...
...Wildlife's Dr. Philip DuMont prepared to leave for Midway with plans for a three-phase attack. First, he will attempt a kind of planned parenthood, stealing and smashing goony eggs around the main airstrip. If this fails to discourage the goonies,* DuMont will try to make other, harmless parts of the atoll more alluring to goony birds, sprucing up the foliage, sanding over old runways and creating a veritable goony La Guardia Field. If all else fails, DuMont will introduce ultra-high frequency noises to drive the goonies to madness or to less sonic surroundings...
Nehru's plan is a series of bilateral non-aggression pacts between Red China and other Asian countries, seemingly a harmless notion. But such pacts would exclude from Asia the protective power of the West, because membership in Nehru's system involved a commitment not to join in other alliances. It would prevent China's more nervous neighbors from joining together in self-protection, leave the Communists free to pick off, one by one, in the classic totalitarian manner, each nonaggressive neighbor...
Chemical Scarecrow. To keep birds off window sills, ledges, etc., National Bird Control Laboratories of Skokie, Ill. put on the market a chemical in an aerosol container. The chemical, harmless to people and birds, will keep birds off any surface it is sprayed on. Price...
...that, as he has written, "man and his folly . . . will prevail," the Mississippi philosopher declared: "I'm not afraid of snakes. Man is man's most dangerous enemy." Then back to its keeper he handed the snake, which-on close inspection-turned out to be a thoroughly harmless South American species of coral snake...