Word: mice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, efficient, private air force bombing the lush seaside acres of Monterey County, Calif.? See BUSINESS, Men v. Mice...
...farmers in "the Artichoke Capital of the World," where 90% of the nation's supply is grown, the mice are a disaster. Blessed with sandy soil and cool, sun-shading ocean fog, in which the temperamental artichoke thrives, the country's annual crop normally exceeds 35,000 tons. But no longer. Downpours in the spring of 1967 left the normally quiescent beasties with little to do but hole up and breed; droughts this year then forced the hungry hordes of rodents onto the well-tended artichoke fields. Thus the Monterey farmers are losing up to 50% or more...
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...
...corroding faith, and contended that even the U.S. hierarchy is not exempt from the liberal disease. Keynote Speaker Frederick Wilhelm-sen, professor of philosophy and politics at the University of Dallas, declared that "the bishops of this nation labor mightily like elephants and then bring forth as solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient. "It is a question of a man-oriented order v. a God-oriented order...
Some skeptics suggest that BHT merely prevents mice from dying of other diseases, but Harman is "99% certain" that it actually retards aging. Persuasive evidence, he says, is the fact that he got almost identical results from another chemical-a derivative of quinoline-whose only significant similarity to BHT is its antioxidant properties. Harman doubts that his findings can be applied to humans any time soon; for one thing, the chemicals must still be carefully tested on other animals. Yet he is convinced that the addition of similar chemicals to man's diet may eventually be "an acceptable, practical...