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...field supervisor of mosquito control for the city health department, Pest-Hunter Duclus uses modern methods. All through the summer mosquito hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis...
...final heat, he gave 250,000 spectators a thrill by whipping so narrowly past the observation barge that newsmen aboard could count the stitches on his lifebelt. Then, 300 yards past the barge, Quicksilver began the turn. Suddenly the big hydroplane flipped over, vanished in a geyser of white spray. When the mist settled, only flotsam remained-a few splinters of grey plywood, a seat cushion, one shoe with a sock still inside...
...Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot had to spray 1,400 rounds of .50-cal. fire at a Russian MIG-15 fighter before it went down...
Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
With his mouth full of gasoline for an aerial spray effect, Flamo misjudged and blew himself to the hospital. Mannix applied for the job and got it. Step Right Up! is his amusing if sketchy story of what happened to him in the next few seasons with various carnival shows...