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...operational headquarters at Dau Tieng. The once-sleepy village bordering a large rubber plantation soon resembled a World War II beachhead as lumbering C-1235 transports and darting helicopters brought in hundreds of tons of supplies from 175-mm. artillery shells to plastic bottles of mosquito repellent. DePuy soon concluded that Attleboro had caught the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese massing for an attack on the Special Forces camp of Suoi Da, perhaps as the opening of a major winter offensive. True or not, the Reds kept fighting as though it were; the biggest battle was still to come...
First, Woyzeck, is cursed by some very bad acting. Paul Balmuth, the lead, has not much business being on the Loeb mainstage. His range of expressiveness is disastrously limited; his voice is pathetically inadequate; his mosquito-like dartings back and forth across the stage grow quite irritating after a while. When he plays to his mistress, Marie, he looks and acts like a little boy; with the Doctor, he seems completely unconcerned to be the victim of a deranged experimenter; with the Drum Major (when he ought to be dead drunk, incidentally, and not stone sober...
Entomologist Ernest Bay has pinned his hopes on the little Cynolebias bellottii, or Argentine pearlfish. Almost alone it keeps large areas of Argentina and Brazil relatively free of mosquitoes. Immediately after hatching in the waters of low-lying flood plains the tiny fish begins eating mosquito larvae. By the time it reaches its mature length of 1½ in. to 3 in. a few weeks later, it is able to consume about 50 larvae...
...eggs, which dry out and are preserved in the baked mud after floodwaters recede. The next year, when the plains are inundated again, the eggs hatch in as little as half an hour after they are moistened, producing a new generation of fish to sweep the waters clear of mosquito larvae...
...flood plains in California and other states. He envisons the day when many of the intermittently flooded fields in the U.S. will be rich in pearlfish eggs. Then as spring rains herald another flood season, millions of eggs will hatch, providing nature's own form of instant mosquito control...