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Pesticides such as DDT, parathion, aldrin and dieldrin are both ally and enemy to man. The chemicals annihilate predators: the aphids that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals...
...Bolshevik cause some of its most dedicated fighters. Their role earned them Lenin's encomium as the "shock forces" of the revolution. There were 22,000 members then, people drawn from schools, factories and farms. They considered themselves "an active, creative force in society, the party's helper and its reserve, a school of Communism for youth...
...countrymen, angered the Gaullist party and raised doubts in France about the wisdom of his future policy. In what was perhaps the most ungracious ouster of a head of government since Germany's Wilhelm II fired Bismarck in 1890, De Gaulle dropped his old friend and loyal helper, Georges Pompidou, as Premier. As his replacement, De Gaulle tapped his longtime Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, a suave aristocrat who has no personal political ambitions...
...skills such as industrial design, medical technology and visual communications. "I worked in the shops for four years," says one still-unemployed electronics graduate of The Bronx's Samuel Gompers Vocational and Technical High School. "I couldn't even get a job as an electrician's helper...
Curing the Sniffles. The party's answer to Wehner, 61 and ill with diabetes, was a shift designed to reduce his influence. In the newly created post of party general manager, Brandt installed a trusted helper, Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski, 45. Now the minister for aid to developing countries, he will take over from Wehner the responsibility for getting the party into shape for next year's national elections. The appointment also meant that the Social Democrats, who under Wehner's influence have played down their differences with the Christian Democrats in the Grand Coalition...