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...predators: the aphids that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals and occasionally man has continued to grow. Yet little in the way of effective control has been attempted...
Then a sharp crack rang out and blood spurted from the head of Robert Miller, a staff member of the New England Free Press. Several students inside had been blinded by a spray and were clutching their eyes...
Then a sharp crack rang out and blood spurted from the head of Robert Miller, a staff member of the New England Free Press. Several students inside had been blinded by a spray and were clutching their eyes...
...demonstrators within the building did no major damage to offices, although several spray-painted slogans on the walls. Others attempted to erase some of the slogans. Two secretaries leaving the news office in the basement of the building said that some files had been removed from offices in the building for safekeeping elsewhere earlier this morning...
Since then, Dr. HIPpocrates has become the best-read feature in the paper. Schoenfeld knew what his readers wanted-straight talk instead of "straight" lectures. To a questioner worried whether spray deodorants cause cancer of the armpits, he suggests daily bathing instead. To girls fearful of pelvic examinations, he carefully explains them. To a youth ashamed of his small genitalia, he reports that some women "would rather be tickled than choked...