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Unlike toxic insecticides, juvenile hormones will not harm plants or animals. Nor can insects develop a resistance to it since they need the hormone for early growth...
About the only way for a Negro to get his name in the first few pages of most Alabama newspapers is to do bodily harm to a white person. The small number of other endeavors that make the papers are ordinarily consigned to what is known in the trade as the "nigger page" (a compositor for the Selma Times-Journal recently precipitated a demonstration by angry Negroes when he inadvertantly failed to remove a line of type reading "Nigger Page" from that section of the paper...
...years ago, Russia welcomed Cuba's subversive efforts. No longer. Well aware that Castro's guerrilla wars are getting nowhere, that they are doing more harm than good to Communism's image, Moscow is now trying to achieve a foothold in Latin America through diplomacy and trade expansion (TIME, March 31). Such tactics, Castro claims, only help the "oligarchies" that he is trying to overthrow. To make sure that Moscow gets the point, Castro is planning a Latin America-wide meeting in Havana next month to discuss future strategies for his guerrilla wars of liberation...
...games, beards, Beatle haircuts, indigent tourists and fireworks. Now the junta is considering theater. Banned are all performances that might "disturb public order, promote subversive theories, discredit the Greek nation or tourism, offend the Christian faith, the King or the government, undermine the people's social traditions, or harm the esthetic advance of the people-particularly youth...
...Paul-Henri Spaak, who helped draft the treaty, was asked so late that he declined to attend. Instead, the fellow who had all the fun was the one who deserved it least. He was Charles de Gaulle, whose narrow view of Europe has probably done most to harm the Common Market and slow its growth...