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Competently but without any heart for it, Father Edward J. Moffett worked in a suburban New York office, contributing to the Roman Catholic Foreign Mission Society's Maryknoll Magazine. Writing accounts of missionary work constantly sharpened a question in his mind: What spot on earth might most desperately need the help of a selfless missionary? As an old China hand (he spent almost a year in a Communist jail in 1950-51), Moffett knew what part of the globe to study. At length he chose the barren, wind-whipped Paeng Yong Islands, South Korea's farthest outpost...
...doubles, Snow and Ewart (M) defeated Alan Wolf and Blackmer (H), 6-4, 6-4; Keyes and Humphreys (H) defeated Lake and Moffett (M), 6-4, 5-7, 6-1; and Alec Bancroft and Pete Rient (H) won in straight sets over Weld and Field...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 53, novelist of Georgia's poor whites (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), and Virginia Moffett Fletcher, 37; he for the fourth time (his second: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), she for the second; in Reno...
Poisons for killing off plant and animal nuisances are rapidly becoming more selective, so that they do their job without hurting species that man wants to preserve. Last week Dr. James W. Moffett of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was getting encouraging results with a selective chemical designed to deal with the predatory eellike sea lamprey which has invaded the Great Lakes and almost exterminated the valuable lake trout (TIME, May 9). The lamprey, which bypassed Niagara Falls via the Welland Ship Canal, attaches itself to fish with a tooth-armed sucker and bores and sucks them to death...
...Canadian lamprey fighters have had some success with electrically charged fences built across the lampreys' favorite streams. Adult lampreys are killed or driven back by the electricity before they can spawn, but good fish are affected, too, and the fences are expensive to build and operate. Dr. Moffett felt it would be much better to find some chemical that would kill the infant lampreys in their burrows. The poison would have to spare the desirable fish that use the same streams, and no such chemical was known. So Moffett sent out a call for help, asking universities and industrial...