Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no doubt that the spider population has been decreased tremendously by spraying," stated Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology, but it will take about a year before we know whether they have been completed exterminated...
Herert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology at the Museum, has identified one of a number of spiders found alive in the basement as Loxosceles laeta, previously unknown in this country. It is believed that the species has been living undetected in Cambridge for several years...
...Herbert Levi, the museum's associate curator of arachnology, and one of the world's leading spidermen, discovered the first laeta lurking in a cabinet of dead myriapods (millepedes and centipedes) in September 1960. Levi promptly identified the male spider, but he paid no further attention, thinking the laeta was a lonely stowaway that had come to town in a shipment of South American zoological specimens. Not until last month did Harvard zoologists realize that laetas had made the museum their U.S. beach head. Delighted students discovered that the basement was alive with venomous spiders, many of them...
Proud though he is of his laetas, Dr. Levi knows that they must be eliminated. But he is in no hurry. He points out that millions of dollars were spent in an effort to wipe out the South American fire ants that invaded the southern U.S. in the 1920s. No research was done in advance, and the ants are thriving still. Before attacking the spiders in his museum's basement. Dr. Levi intends to find out whether they have spread to other Harvard buildings in a search for their silverfish food. He wants to learn where the females...
...many of the wives, the transition from Levi's to Lanvins has been joltingly sudden. "There I was working in the oilfields," said Mrs. Bruno Graf of Dallas, "and the next thing I knew I was going all through Europe with all my diamonds and my personal maid." The oilionairesses tend to take their recreation in groups. Mrs. James Abercrombie of Houston and four of her friends call themselves "The Flying Five" and periodically take off in one of her husband's planes (with pilot and copilot) for a sightseeing jaunt in the Caribbean or somewhere. Mrs. Ralph...