Word: insectes
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...NATION). Secure in the knowledge that thousands of troops were deployed in the outskirts to protect the city from the Viet Cong, students and politicians lounged idly at sidewalk cafes, carping endlessly about the government's handling of the war. Shops bustled with busy shoppers: thousands of insect-like Renault taxis still clogged the streets. And as always, at midday practically everyone went home for the traditional siesta...
...million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent than it had ordered. The Air Force learned that it could safely stretch storage life of the solid propellant for its Minuteman missiles from three to our years, saving $25 million. Not even the old memento of service days, the dog tag, was safe. By ordering tags of corrosion-resistant...
...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...
...development staff from 100 to 300 in the past ten years, now markets 750 products. They are put to some unusual uses in unlikely places. Finnish yachtsmen have discovered that Johnson's ordinary Paste Wax keeps barnacles off boat bottoms, and Buganda tribesmen have found that its Off insect repellent deters the Nile River gnats...
...France until they are carried with the flood of human driftwood to a last beach in Lisbon. There Schwarz's cancer-ridden wife commits suicide. To the fatalistic companion who has listened to Schwarz talk through the long night in Lisbon, the tale later seems reminiscent of an insect embalmed in a flat piece of amber-"the death struggle of a gnat, preserved in a cage of golden tears, while its fellows had frozen or been eaten, and vanished from the face of the earth...