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...something like a telegraphed, last-ditch mass suicide threat on the part of the movie-going public. For this film's enormous success clearly has little to do with its cinematic merits, which are not all that numerous, and everything to do with the morose message it manages to transmit. Five Easy Pieces is about emotionally handicapped people trying desperately to ward off terminal psychic disaster-and, accordingly, its phenomenal appeal seems very much a symptom of a national mood bordering on emotional collapse...
...worst of the pests is the female pasture mosquito (Aëdes nigromaculus). Though it does not transmit diseases to man, the creature is a vicious stinger and travels in swarms as dense as 2,000,000 per acre in Southern California. In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, the pests are so thick at dawn and dusk-their feeding times-that people hardly dare step outdoors. Because of the insects, schools at times have been closed, farm workers have refused to tend crops, and dairy cows, stung on their udders, have produced no milk...
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...
...frustration of not being able to transmit copy or pictures continued. Despite being essentially restricted to the hotel, we had a great deal to write about. From our windows on the war and from a couple of quick expeditions into the streets, we were able to piece together a partial picture of the fighting. Some of us also kept diaries of life inside "Stalag Intercontinental." In the occasional lulls, the sound of typewriters could be heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were...
Theoretically, a severed cat's brain might be educated to recognize and respond to a set of optical impulses and transmit signals to guide a missile onto its target. Or, cheaper still, a cat called Yossarian might be trained to twitch a certain muscle if a target he had learned was not centered on the cross hairs...