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Inside, the false electronic siren sang on & on, night after night. She killed, in all, 40,000 males. By the end of the test period, only a few were left to answer her fatal invitation. For two miles around the swamp was almost cleared of males...
Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...
This year he had campaigned with the fervor of a thirsty desert wanderer heading for a water hole. He had leapfrogged across the state in a helicopter, had done his best to get siren-tooting motorcycle escorts when campaigning by automobile. Texans had admired his glib, excited, high-pressure approach...
When Acme's photographer handed Blumenfeld the fight pictures, away went the ambulance, the siren screaming. The pictures were developed on the way and sent to Acme's clients from a downtown office well ahead of the competition. At the next big fight, six ambulances were parked outside. Recalls Blumenfeld fondly: "We had a regular Roman chariot race down Park Avenue...
Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...