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Ultimately, both men and maggots need the help of an emerging science of survival?ecology. In the U.S., a tiny band of ecologists has achieved sudden prominence: Rene J. Dubos (Rockefeller University), LaMont C. Cole (Cornell), Eugene P. Odum...
...stop population growth requires a dramatic rise in the world standard of living?hardly a bright prospect. Moreover, ecologists are not hopeful that a "green revolution" can increase farm harvests enough to feed twice as many people. "Undeveloped countries cannot afford to mechanize their farming production," argues Eugene P. Odum. "The fancier a seed we give them, the more artificial care it needs, along with tractors and gasoline...
...Eugene P. Odum, 55, of the University of Georgia, is a specialist on estuarine marshes and author of the standard college textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology. "We have got to stop thinking of ourselves as being in the growth stage of civilization and realize that we are in the mature stage," says Odum. "Up to now we have been a consumptive, destructive civilization. We must now learn to recycle and reuse." Under his direction, the University of Georgia's Institute of Ecology is studying how tidewater marshes help to produce 90% of the country's seafood...
...President, that Thursday was quite a day. He chatted briefly with West Virginia's Jo Ann Odum, 19, who will soon represent the U.S. in the Miss World Pageant. He lunched-after several postponements-with the brass of Advise and Consent, being filmed in Washington (see SHOW BUSINESS). Later, he received a delegation from a businessmen's group headed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough. Once officially attached to the Department of Commerce with the title of Business Advisory Council, the group had broken away last summer when Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges tried to curb its authority. Ever...
Died. Howard Washington Odum, 70, dean of Southern sociologists and one of the earliest and most influential voices raised against the South's triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived...