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...These days Communism is in an internationalist mood and the claims of the Russian propagandists are widely pushed abroad. The purpose may be to convince prospective foreign proselytes that Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light, and thus a sort of shrine of wisdom for the world...
Britain, it seemed, was beginning to pull out of its economic swamp; the French government had finally decided to govern, rather than let Communist sabotage wreck its recovery efforts; and Western Germany was going through an economic resurgence that held out bright hope to all of Western Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Western strength was expressed still another way, and that was the changing mood and mettle of Western Europe's people...
Finesse made fight look a hit foolish at Hanover yesterday as the Varsity soccer team employed its passing game to swamp Dartmouth's scrimmaging booters, 4 to 0. The occasion marked the first Harvard soccer win over Dartmouth in eight years and the fourth victory in a row for the 1948 Crimson squad...
Inside, the false electronic siren sang on & on, night after night. She killed, in all, 40,000 males. By the end of the test period, only a few were left to answer her fatal invitation. For two miles around the swamp was almost cleared of males...
Nobody seems to know how often a male mosquito can mate. Perhaps he can mate only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...