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Even before getting his degree, young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to the Chilean legation in Lima, Peru. There, just "to kill time," he took up history and literature...
From the Agriculture Department last week came an alarming note. The pink bollworm, "the most threatening insect pest of American cotton," is doing more damage "to the 1952 cotton crop . . . than its total damage in the last 35 years." Jolted by the news, cotton traders in New York and elsewhere began buying heavily, quickly pushed cotton futures up as much as $2.50 a bale. But when newsmen tried to get some more facts on the crop damage a few hours later, faces at the Agriculture Department were as pink as a bollworm. There are no figures, said Agriculture officials...
Even in intimate contact with the swing of civilization, the kings of couture have this year anticipated the predicted conquest of the world by the insect kingdom in a flood of fall fashions that imitate the ant, burlesque the beetle and copy the katydid...
Young Dick was a bright student. He made his debating debut in the seventh grade on a boys' team upholding, against the girls, the affirmative of "Resolved, that insects are more beneficial than harmful." In characteristic fashion (he still does his own painstaking research on legislation and speeches), young Nixon went to an entomologist uncle and assembled a formidable body of benign facts about the insect world. The girls' team was routed...
...yearbook for 1952, published this week (Insects, U.S. Government Printing Office; $2.50), the Department of Agriculture carries a gloomy bulletin on the war. "Although the science of entomology has made great progress in the last two decades," reports Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, "the problems caused by insects seem to be bigger than ever. We have more insect pests, although we have better insecticides to use against them and better ways to fight them." Insect pests have already survived for 250 million years. And for all man's relentless ingenuity, says the yearbook, "no species of insect...