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Last week Dr. John F. Kessel of the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine reported that a postwar drug, combined with vigorous mosquito control, has all but eradicated mumu from Tahiti and nearby islands. Next to be attacked is American Samoa. Dr. Kessel and his U.C.L.A. team, encouraged by Samoa's Governor H. Rex Lee, will start work there this month...
...expatriate U.S. yachtsman named William Albert Robinson, who lives in Papeete and had a touch of filariasis himself, interested Dr. Kessel in a campaign to rid Tahiti of the wormlets. Kessel trained a staff of Tahitian technicians, showed a film that taught natives where the mosquitoes bred-in holes in trees and rocks, in abandoned canoes, in tin cans, rain barrels, gasoline drums and worn-out tires, in coconuts half eaten by rats-and how to destroy the breeding places...
Broken Cycle. Dr. Kessel's most potent weapon was the drug diethylcarbamazine (Lederle Laboratories' Hetrazan). It does not kill all the adult worms or directly cure a full-blown case of filariasis, but it prevents reinfection by killing the wormlets in their early, vulnerable phase...
Jacqueline Brooks, Bernard Kessel and Edward Higgins cleverly explored the depths of thestock-types they presented. Dean Gitter was good when he wasn't reverting to Willy Loman. And Hillier should be praised for the atmosphere of smooth informality in which he knit the scenes together. It was not until Crawling Arnold, however, that he seemed confident with his material, and didn't feel impelled to superimpose dramatic trickery...
Other members of the panel were John Kessel, professor of Government at Amherst and executive director of the Massachusetts Nixon Committee, and Greg Potvin, a former Democratic candidate for the senate from Idaho...