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...year-old house that he chose was on the market all of 30 hours before he agreed to buy it for $68,500. It has three bedrooms and two baths but only a one-car garage; his house in Dayton has the same number of rooms but is bigger, newer and has a two-car garage. Phillips also had to sweat out his application for a mortgage loan. The problem is that he is burdened with alimony payments; taking them into account, savings and loan associations would insist that Phillips and his second wife, Marilyn, show a combined income...
...effort to stem the tide of new cases, health authorities are now using more of other insecticides, such as Malathion and propoxur to kill DDT-resistant mosquitoes-but the insects are already showing signs of developing resistance to the newer chemicals. Thus the most practical response now to malaria's new challenge, says Dr. Robert Kaiser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser...
...What's newer than news at the New York Times...
...material here is certainly newer to French than to American eyes -most of it comes from U.S. collections -but there is one sublime group of paintings that have never been seen together in public before: Piet Mondrian's series of canvases centered around Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43), done in exile in Manhattan. They make up one of the most exalted statements about ideal form in the history of art. One gains, at 30 years' distance, a full sense of why Mondrian's fanatical purity and countervailing richness of surface so obsessed his American followers...
...Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...