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Some farmers have found as many as 30 mice nibbling at the roots and lower stems of one plant, which bears 40 to 50 artichokes. With an average of four mice per plant, the mouse population runs to well over 2,000 per acre. Fighting back against such hungry hordes, the farmers have resorted to aerial "bombing" of the fields with oats coated with a poison (zinc phosphide) that is strong enough to kill mice, too mild to hurt other wildlife. In one "Kill Mouse Day" last week, planes swooped down and dropped 46,000 lbs. of poisoned oats, which...
Denny & Dizzy. Pitchers' performances have been as spectacular as the hitters' have been horrific. It was only seven years ago that Warren Spahn topped all National League hurlers with an earned-run average of 3.01; this year there are 69 pitchers with lower ERAs than that. Three pitchers-Detroit's Denny McLain (record: 17-2), San Francisco's Juan Marichal (15-4) and Cleveland's Luis Tiant (14-5)-all have a shot at winning 30 games, a feat last accomplished by Dizzy Dean in 1934. Tiant, the All-Star game loser, has an incredible...
...common cold to influenza and poliomyelitis. He also benefits emotionally from frequent fondling and being cradled in Mother's arms. The mother herself benefits because hormone changes associated with lactation speed contraction of the uterus after the stretching caused by childbirth. The incidence of breast cancer is far lower among women who have nursed their babies than among those who have relied on the bottle. And again, the nursing mother enjoys satisfactions denied a woman who has to mix and fix formulas...
...will hook together as the tubeb forms, adding rigidity. At first, the antenna legs will be extended only 358 ft. from the craft, to test their stability. Then they will grow to their full length-750 ft. apiece. Already oriented towards the earth by magnetism, RAE-A's lower V antenna will also be pulled earthward by gravity, which will further stabilize the spidery satellite...
...July sun was scarcely above the Manhattan rooftops when the mob began pouring out of the decaying tenements on the Lower East Side-ragged, shouting, weaponed with sticks, iron bars and brickbats. By midmorning, the crowd had moved across Broadway, filled Eighth and Ninth Avenues, descended on the 47th Street Army draft-board headquarters and set it afire...