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...Demara, now 47, has had previous, if less official roles as Trappist monk and Skid Row evangelist. ··· Country music's Woodward Maurice ("Tex") Ritter (Hillbilly Heaven, Boll Weevil) threw a ten-gallon hat into the ring and announced his designs on the U.S. Senate seat held by Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore. The old cowboy would be no Capitol Hillbilly: he has a degree in political science from the University of Texas and once studied law at Northwestern. As for the campaign, Tex says firmly: "I'll discuss the issues. Of course, I'll always...
...killers, typhus, encephalitis and, particularly, malaria. Its mastery over the mosquitoes that carry malaria has undoubtedly spared millions of people from death and debilitating infection. Equally potent in saving crops, it has almost doubled the yield from U.S. cotton fields in the past two decades by controlling the boll weevil. Even the Swedes, who have decided to ban the chemical, readily acknowledge its effectiveness. In 1948 they awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry to Swiss Chemist Paul Müller for his discovery of its "miraculous" capacity for destroying insects...
...species, Williams points out that other juvenile hormone-like chemicals can be used in the same way to sterilize a wide variety of insect pests. "The day may be near at hand," he says, "when we can do in individual insect pests such as the housefly, mosquito and boll weevil...
...Bossism & Boll Weevil!" The Democratic leadership knew that its only chance to beat Goodell's scheme was to win over or at least neutralize Southern Democrats, who had never much liked OEO and who could now, as a result of the riots, find a good excuse for voting their distaste. How could they be pried loose from the Republicans? The Administration forces decided that some "dramatic change" would be needed in the program itself...
...that state and local officials be given the control over local programs that they had long asked for. The leadership agreed, not only mollifying Southerners but also assuring that big-city Democratic machines would throw their all into the battle. The dramatic change had been found. "Bossism and boll weevil!" cried an outraged Charlie Goodell. The remark won his cause few Southern votes...