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...minimized by spraying the elms in late fall or in early spring before the buds swell. At those times, few birds are around to be damaged, and when the bark beetles start flying in April from diseased to healthy elms, they are killed by the long-lasting poison. Another help would be substitution of methoxychlor for DDT. Methoxychlor is more expensive, but it kills bark beetles just as well, and it is only 10% as toxic as DDT to birds and other wildlife...
...Aren't others, as well, alarmed at his public debauch, at his joyous wallowing in the insensitive, at his brazen certainty that we all will join him, slapping our thighs as we screamingly laugh at his vulgar barbs? And for this poison to be lent an aura of legitimacy simply by its appearance in your pages...
...These two women, because they are aging, cannot stand anybody young. If you would have a private detective on them, you would be surprised what a life they lead! Why should these women be allowed to write a daily column and poison our children's minds?" For those kiddies who follow the gossip columns...
Though Khrushchev was surely under pressure, he did not act like a fellow on the skids. He sent a note to his poison pen pal Mao Tse-tung politely declining Mao's invitation to talk over the Sino-Soviet split in Peking (TIME, March 22). Instead he invited Mao or a group of colleagues to Moscow. Suggested time for the confrontation of quarreling Communists: in the spring or summer, "which are good seasons of the year in our country...
...scientist believes that the United States has limited objectives at the disarmament conference. One was the Moscow-Washington "hot line," which was obtained; the other is a test ban, so that the continuing arms race will not poison the atmosphere. But beyond that, he said, Washington is not ready to go. Since we now have the edge in the armaments race, Washington finds it useful to keep the Soviet Union under the economic strain of an arms race...