Word: locust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Joseph Strick, who showed a talent for visual satire in The Savage Eye, suffers a distinct falling off in this film. His next project, a film from Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, which has a more familiar setting and theme for him, will probably recoup his prestige...
Until a few years ago, practically nothing could be done about a locust invasion. As the big insects migrated in swarms that darkened the sky, tree limbs cracked under their weight; with their voracious appetites, they consumed growing crops that would have fed millions. But Dr. Reginald Rainey and his colleagues of the Anti-locust Research Center have discovered that the movements of man's ancient enemy have an intimate connection with meteorology. Locusts need rain, and the desert vegetation that rain encourages, before they can breed into black swarms. When the desert bursts into sudden bloom, the locust...
...Israelis and Egyptians would hesitate to even sit at the same table. In the rambling building overlooking London's Hyde Park, they converse with a frank respect for each other's opinions. There, for a change, they have joined forces to fight a common enemy: the desert locust. In the conference rooms of Britain's Anti-locust Research Center, which works with the United Nations, entomologists and agricultural scientists from 30 nations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East gather to mount a defense against the ugly winged brutes known as Shistocerca gregaria...
...today's locust fighters have a new and glamorous aid. U.S. Tiros weather satellites have proved to be reliable anti-locust spies. To cryptic reparts from wandering Bedouins, Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...
...will be the sole human survivor of nuclear attack that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing finally happens to his characters; they are merely suspended before the reader for a moment in time, and they disappear into a future no more hopeful than their past. But for a few moments they stand illuminated in the light...