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Summer was here. In its outward manifestations it was about average. There had been heat-nothing sensational-but enough to make an undertaker sweat and a dog hunt shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs were back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched...
McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
...shade trees: A .1% DDT emulsion destroys tent caterpillars, cankerworms, gypsy moths, elm leaf beetles, boxwood leaf miner and some other pests. Warning: it increases the population of red mites, by killing their parasites...
Both groups will find Harvard physically identical with the pictures in the catalogue. Because of another unfortunate necessity, however, the ivy shelters but cannot obscure a significant change. With a fixed plant, a faculty shortage, and a greatly expanded enrollment, the College has been inexorably forced to shade the quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...
...crucial meeting in March 1940 Jinnah first publicly plumped for Pakistan.* A hundred thousand followers thronged into the shade of a huge pandal (big tent) in Lahore, where the League was meeting, overflowed into the scorching heat outside, heard Jinnah proclaim over the loudspeaker: ". . . The only course open to us all is to allow the major nations [of India] to separate to their homelands." He warned that any democratic government in a unified India which gave Moslems a permanent minority "must lead to civil war and the raising of private armies." An enthusiastic woman follower tore off her veil, came...