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Last week Dr. Patrick D. Pielou of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory at Belleville, Ont. told how he hopes to lick this problem. Dr. Pielou breeds friendly bugs called Macrocentrus (which attack the destructive Oriental fruit moth) and exposes each generation of them to DDT not quite strong enough to wipe them out. The survivors, says Dr. Pielou, grow progressively tougher. Eventually, he hopes, they will be able to ignore DDT. Then they will be released in orchards to mop up the fruit moths that have survived...
Griff Buttock, who usually substitution at left halfback, went in at center forward and groped the Yearlings' first goal on a center from right wing Steve Joyee in 25 seconds of the second period. Joyee three minutes later, put in a lour, high Lick from 60 feet out for the second sere...
...Manhattan, a salesman earnestly buttonholed a doubtful customer. "They'll never lick this thing," he cried. "It's too big. With Marshall Plan and arms for Europe, and if we should have another war-God forbid-who knows when there'll be color television? Better take this set right now . . ." In Washington, another dealer moaned: "Yesterday I sold exactly one receiver. Normally, I'd get rid of 30 to 50 in one day." Across the nation, other TV dealers gloomily surveyed piles of canceled orders. Manufacturers, with TV sets in their warehouses, gritted their teeth...
...Flags West [20th Century-Fox] is another "different" western with a Civil War setting. Among its surprises: 1) an unkissed Linda Darnell, 2) a battle in which the Indians lick the soldiers...
...zone beyond, destruction would be-as atomic scientists describe it-"severe." As the mushroom cloud drifted off, in the cluttered, congested, trapped island of Manhattan, storms of fire would lick furiously across the stricken city. An estimated minimum of 75,000 people would be dead, 75,000 would be dying...