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Because of the mud and stagnant water, neither team could play an outstanding game, but the Crimson showed a determined effort. On a field that baffled any attempts at a coordinated attack, Harvard's forward line combined for three excellent goals. The Crimson defense never made a major error, although the slippery conditions exaggerated every mistake...
Until drainage is adequate, California may have increasing trouble with its Anopheles mosquito, which can transmit malaria from infected to healthy humans. Though not immune to insecticides, that bug proliferates in stagnant water and may spread more and more disease. Reason: about one percent of returning Southeast Asian veterans are infected with malaria. What really worries health officials, though, is Culex tarsalis, the second mosquito species that has foiled all insecticides in California. Culex transmits encephalitis, a disease that attacks the human brain. California's most recent encephalitis outbreak occurred in 1952, the year DDT failed, and a major...
...British have dubbed the current malady "stagflation"-a combination of stagnant consumer demand and almost runaway wage-price inflation. During the first quarter, the country's real output actually fell by 1%; retail prices have risen so far this year at a 7.7% annual rate. In one recent week, statisticians counted 286 increases in grocery prices. Telephone charges and railway fares are up, some London subway fares have doubled, and postage for a first-class letter will go up from 5d. to 7d. in January. The nationalized coal and gas industries have publicly warned that substantial rate increases...
...students to quit school and form Red Guard units to stir up a peasant revolt. Now numbering perhaps 25,000 members, the Naxalite movement has recruited its most aggressive members from Calcutta's middle-class college students and graduates, frustrated by lack of opportunity in India's stagnant economy...
...came with a vengeance. Not only was the weather sweltering-temperatures hovered around 90 degrees all week long-but there was also a temperature inversion. Like a lid on a jar, a stagnant upper layer of warm air kept heated air below from escaping. And what air! The city's brisk winds stopped dead; the sky darkened. Oxidants, caused by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons to sunlight, became a major addition to the city's usual outpourings of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and tiny particles of lead, asbestos and other suspended matter. Day after...