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According to the grasshopper map published each year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the most threatened area this summer is in Montana, near the Canadian border. But last year's grasshoppers laid their eggs in the soil of many western and midwestern states. What the young hoppers need is a good long spell of dry weather to nurse them along to destructive maturity. The grasshoppers that do the most damage are primarily a semidesert species. Wet weather blights them in youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grasshopper Time | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NEWS Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described. 62. This nation uneasily accepted Stalin's handwritten invitation to discuss a mutual assistance pact. 63. April elections here brought a showdown between Communist and anti-Red forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress and the President | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report of the expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Vassar College's C. (for Clara) Mildred Thompson, 66, starchy, pince-nezed dean (for 25 years), "map-minded" history professor, U.S. delegate to the conference that founded UNESCO, outspoken feminist, internationalist and F.D.R. Democrat. More respected than beloved, Atlanta-born Dean Thompson briskly shook hands on registration day with every new Vassar girl, thereafter kept a cold eye on grades and credits until commencement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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