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...Final Solution. As the bugs now metamorphose from engorged caterpillars to egg-laying moths, federal and state agencies are stepping up efforts to stop the pests "Spread."Inspectors face the thankless task of searching campers and trailers for gypsy moth eggs. Scientists hope to put out synthetic sex lures that attract libidinous male moths to traps and doom. When the lures were tested in Mississippi, says William H. Gillespie, chairman of the National Gypsy Moth Advisory Council in Charleston, W. Va., "all the male moths did was fly around and frustrate themselves. They never did find any gals to procreate...
Like many campus newspapers, the Stanford Daily has found that covering radical violence and student demonstrations is a thankless trip through no man's land. One Daily photographer was threatened by radicals for taking their pictures; two days later he was Maced by police. Recently, Palo Alto police, armed with a warrant, searched the Daily's files in a fruitless hunt for pictures of the protesters...
Haviland had one of the more thankless jobs: arranging the seating for the status-conscious laborites. There were 1,100 tables spread over 31 acres of bare concrete floor. Haviland dodged the worst of the problem by parceling out blocks of tables to the locals and councils to let them wrangle it out themselves. The size of the blocks was a telling reflection of Chicago labor's power distribution-the Teamsters commanded 275 tables, while the building trades got 190 and the steelworkers...
EVALUATING poetry is a thankless task. There are no absolute standards of judgment, only wavering ones which depend on the fluctuation of taste and times. Perhaps the easiest way to criticize new poetry is to compare it to old poetry in an attempt to gain some perspective on its merit...
...Bryce Harlow is leaving the White House staff to return to private industry. He served as the President's liaison man with Congress, a sometimes thankless job in which his quick, self-deprecating wit served him well, but not well enough to ward off the criticism of some Congressmen who felt that they were being shut off from the White House. Harlow turned down an offer from Nixon to head the Republican National Committee...