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...doubles its number once every 30 days. The plant is so prolific that once it takes hold, floating carpets choke rivers, canals, lakes and bayous. It hinders boat traffic and uses up oxygen needed by fish. After years of trying to keep the hyacinth at bay, a group of weed-control experts and navigation engineers-the Hyacinth Control Society-met in Palm Beach to discuss their few successes and many failures with the beautiful nuisance...
...Even assuming that Congress had reason to conclude that some Communists would use union positions to bring about political strikes," Warren said, "it cannot automatically be inferred that all members share their evil purposes or participate in their illegal activities. We do not hold today that Congress cannot weed dangerous persons out of the labor movement...
...recent years, the Sun-Times has combined sporadic crusading with more sober analysis. "We talk about the old interrogatories-who, what, where, when, why," says Akers. "Too many newspapers don't tell why." He found that one way to get the why was to weed the mediocre reporters out of his staff and to keep the pay scales high enough to attract bright newsmen...
...Southern Education Foundation points out that "Negroes have no corner on the incompetence market." In fact, well-educated Southern Negroes have long gone into teaching for lack of other opportunities. Florida has based some of its dismissals on National Teacher Examination scores, and Griffin predicts that the test will "weed out some substandard white teachers...
...Grace and French interests in the African Republic of Togo. In the U.S., Grace is completing a factory near Buffalo for reprocessing nuclear fuel. In the Midwest, it is opening 200 Grace Green-towns, rural centers at which farmers can get advice and buy Grace fertilizers, insecticides and weed-killers...