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TIME should have cheered Miss Carson's efforts to alert the public to pesticide dangers, and seconded her motion to step up research to discover target-specific, short-life pesticides and nonchemical pest controls, the use of which would assure that America will never have a "silent spring...
...Then they traced it to its native habitat in Italy and Spain, were surprised to find that on home grounds the weed did not thrive as it did in the U.S. Searching for an explanation, the biologists discovered that the puncture weed is peculiarly susceptible to a particular European pest called the puncture-vine weevil-a quarter-inch brownish beetle with a snoutlike head. The weevil's life cycle is inextricably linked with the growth of the puncture weed...
...Good Pest...
...field of pest control, one pest is sometimes introduced to control another, more serious type...
...exterminator, I certainly approve of "Pest" Harold Gross [June 15] and his methods of controlling the "waste-pests" infesting Congress...