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...that causes chills, fever and headaches and can lead to elephantiasis. Last March, after breeding a host of strong male mosquitoes from insects caught around Fresno, he flew them to Burma and released 5,000 a day in the isolated village of Okpo. "Those huge males," Laven says, "were quicker and stronger than the indigenous breed." The Fresno males immediately began outdoing their Okpo counterparts in mating with Okpo females-which promptly began laying infertile eggs...
...massive redevelopment, is another area where specific plans are nowhere in sight. The Planning Board, the Historic Commission, and other like-minded groups believe that the area should be planned in a systematic, coordinated fashion. Other interests -- primarily land-hungry businesses, so far -- seem to be pressing for a quicker and less lofty disposition of the land. It is obvious that the dump will someday will not be a dump, but the nature, speed, and desirability of the different alternatives are obscure. Likewise the redevelopment of Harvard Square, much discussed in general terms, has so far escaped details...
...afternoon paper, say the experts, has a tougher job than the morning paper: it must print the news while it is still breaking. "A new paper, while close to the Herald Tribune in style, would have to be quicker," says James Bellows, the Trib's last editor, who is now associate editor of the Los Angeles Times. Instead of hiring worn-out legmen as rewrite men, says onetime Trib Editor John Denson, who is now executive editor of Atlas magazine, the paper should seek out specialists with enough knowledge at their command to put a story in context...
...plot runs away with the play. John Webster obviously felt that the quicker he piled on new complexities, the wilder the fans would be. The Devil's Law Case is twelve hours worth of Batman squeezed into...
...Charles de Gaulle was a mere lieutenant colonel in the army. For his only son, the promotions have come quicker. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 45, a 6-ft. 3-in. naval officer who is a sort of dejd vu copy of his father, has been commissioned a capitaine de vaisseau (the naval equivalent of full colonel). The change in grade may mean that the capitaine's handsome wife Henriette will get to the Paris Opera less often. This week he takes command of the guided-missile frigate Suffren, based in .the Mediterranean port of Toulon. In their...