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...cynicism's major proposition: bad things happen to good people. But in Dark Blue World, a Czech pilot named Franta Slama (Ondrej Vetchy), flying with the R.A.F. in World War II, reaches a level of misery rarely touched in the movies...
Houston entered Monday night's game as seven-point favorites, and many said that was generous. The men of "Phi Slama Jama" "had put on an a we some show of speed and slam dunks in demolishing. No 21 Louisville 94-81 in the semi-finals Saturday...
Richard C. Slama Orangeville...
...Walter Lippmann wipe out bugs? Possibly. After observing 1,500 tiny European Pyrrhocoris apterus bugs, Czechoslovakia's Dr. Karel Slama and Harvard's Dr. Carroll M. Williams report that a chemical substance in American newsprint prevented these insects from maturing into adults. Strangely, they grew into oversized larvae but could never reproduce...
...Slama and Williams believe that different insects have different kinds of juvenile hormones. By isolating these hormones, scientists may find ways to eliminate insects selectively, without using sprays that endanger the lives of higher animals and useful insects. Ground-up newspapers may be a ready source of a hormonelike chemical to control some bugs...
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