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Married. Paul Hornung, 31, pro football's "Golden Boy" since 1956, now contemplating retirement from the champion Green Bay Packers because of a chronic pinched nerve in his neck; and Pat Roeder, 29, aspiring actress; both for the first time; in Beverly Hills...
...Hampered this season by a pinched nerve in his neck, Paul scored only five touchdowns. But at least he's got one of the prettier girls in the U.S. And in a few weeks, Paul, the swinger emeritus of the National Football League, will marry Dallas Model Pat Roeder, 29, and settle down...
...with Dr. Dunning's help, Roeder has discovered much more advanced moths that send out their own sonic signals; they can make clicking sounds that are not very different from the search-sonar pulses of bats...
...learn the purpose of such moth clicks, Dunning and Roeder caged the insects in front of a loudspeaker and exposed them to batlike trains of ultrasonic pulses. At once the moths started clicking in what seemed to be an effort to confuse an oncoming bat. To test the effectiveness of the countermeasure, Dunning and Roeder built an electrically operated gun that tosses live meal worms on short trajectories. They trained captive bats to find the meal worms by echolocation, and to pick them skillfully out of the air. Then the entomologists recorded the clicks made by moths and played them...
...Roeder and Dunning are not quite sure why the trick works. The moth's sounds may convey the message that the sender is not good to eat, or in some way they may deceive the bat's echo-location system. Whatever the moth clicks do, they are as effective as any man-made radar jammer...