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Alongside the giant transport planes, a Piper Cub looks like a gnat. A man can lift its tail with one hand, push it over with the other. On a fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
...around Klamath Falls, on the east slope of the Cascades, are a duck hunter's heaven. The two hunters last week, like other local citizens, want to keep it that way. But the fame of Klamath Falls has spread. Last week, hunters from as far away as Chicago swarmed into town. The natives were particularly scornful of what they call "California hunters,"* who swarm across the border, led by a Hollywood contingent in fancy hunting togs. Among movieland duck hunters: Clark Gable and Andy Devine...
Egypt's authorities know that neither quarantine nor immunization nor individual cures can fully protect her crowded population. So they are going after the flies, busy spreaders of cholera, which swarm over Egypt in uncountable billions, as they did in the time of Moses. U.S. Pilot Bob Holt, hired by the Egyptian Government for antimalaria spraying, covers Cario daily with a fog of DDT. The flies of Egypt are specially tough, but the DDT is getting them down...
Buzz Off. In Atlanta, a swarm of bees, settled in a packing crate at an ordnance depot, were quickly sold (for $2.05) as surplus property...
Most important guano bird is the guanay (a kind of cormorant), a highly efficient mechanism for catching the fish that swarm in Peruvian waters and turning them into fertilizer. Each guanay eats about 60 small fish a day and deposits annually some five kilos (11 Ibs.) of guano. Steamers passing the Chincha Islands are forbidden to blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls...