Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight of a horde of gypsy-moth larvae defoliating a forest is one of the most urgent arguments for the use of modern pesticides. The ugly, hairy, 2-in. caterpillars eat every leaf in their path; the rustle of their ill-smelling droppings sounds like falling rain. But public ap prehension about the possible dangers of chemical insect killers is now shielding the hungry worms from DDT and other long-lasting poisons. State and federal authorities are turning with some misgivings to less controversial means of protecting the forests...
NORMAN D. NEXON Glencoe, Ill...
Galvin works easily with his executives, most of whom are much older than he. At Motorola's shiny Franklin Park, Ill., headquarters, where even the chairman works in shirtsleeves, he sees division heads intermittently, allows them full rein to handle engineering, production and sales and make significant decisions. "The most important factor motivating a manager," says Galvin, "is his sense of proprietorship. The man who is given the greatest hand to determine his own destiny will try the hardest. It is fair to say that this is a rather different approach to management." It is also fair...
Strong Dissents. The four dissenting justices felt very strongly that there was something wrong with the majority's reasoning. The new ruling is unworkable, said Justice Byron White, "unless police cars are equipped with public defenders." Said Justice John Marshall Harlan: "I think the rule is most ill-conceived and that it seriously and unjustifiedly fetters perfectly legitimate methods of criminal law enforcement...
...These decisions give support to a current mistaken view of the Constitution and the constitutional function," said Justice John Marshall Harlan. "This view, in a nutshell, is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle,' and that this Court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches fail...