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DISCOVERY, '69. (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Backyard Odyssey," Part 1, investigates the wonderful world of insect and animal life found in any garden backyard; the "stars" of this show are a Monarch butterfly, a grasshopper and a praying mantis...
Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress...
Then there is nature, from which most of his coherent forms come. Bird wings, insect claws around flowers, snakes--anthropomorphic forms are a major source for Mirko...
...helicopter crouching like a giant insect in a Prague soccer field, mini-skirted girls sat between the brawny legs of Soviet aviators. Wearing the borrowed caps of the flyers, the girls pretended, between pinches and giggles, that they were learning how to operate the machine. Nearby, young Czechoslovak boys sprawled in the grass with Soviet enlisted men, examining their submachine guns and playing a sort of mumblety-peg with the short Soviet bayonets. As if to demonstrate their amiable nature, the Soviets put on a show by the Red Army Ensemble, complete with singers and a bosomy Russian blonde...
Harvard Biologist Carroll Williams, once Sláma's senior associate in juvenile hormone research, foresees practical applications of the Czech method "probably within five or six years." Although DMF itself affects the sterility of only a few insect species, Williams points out that other juvenile hormone-like chemicals can be used in the same way to sterilize a wide variety of insect pests. "The day may be near at hand," he says, "when we can do in individual insect pests such as the housefly, mosquito and boll weevil...