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...wildly uncooperative. It thrashed about the bay for an hour while the doctor clung to the gunwale. Amidships, a cardiograph expert crouched over his instrument and worked desperately with the controls. Somehow he managed to get a two-minute record of the plunging whale's heartbeats. The spray-drenched scientists went happily away, clutching the first such record in medical history...
Meanwhile, because the virus is carried by a mosquito (Culex tarsails) which breeds in stagnant water, valley residents were going all out to put oil on pools and spray everything in sight...
...exceptional. All over the U.S., thousands of couples are building or finishing their own homes; thousands more are remodeling their old ones. Partly, their activity is a new expression of the old American passion for working with their hands; it has sent the sales of power saws, sanders, drills, spray guns, and all power tools soaring. But mainly, the "build-it-yourself" boom is born of economic necessity. Not only has the oldtime handyman all but disappeared, but hired home builders or repairers are sometimes shoddy workmen, and always high-priced. Said a Chicago lumber dealer...
With those wistful words, Mary Martin keynotes another wistful week of revivals and reissues in pop records. Mary stars in a revival of Babes in Arms (Columbia, 2 sides LP), with its spray of winsome songs by Rodgers and Hart (Where or When, My Funny Valentine, Johnny One Note). Among the reissues...
There was a young farmer named Graham, Who, though bugs ate his crops, wouldn't spray 'em. He explained: "I've a droll But effective control: I just catch all the females and spay...