Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Crimson will also have the advantage of having four or five players who could step in at eight or nine on the ladder. "A team is very vulnerable if it can't replace players who come down with the flu bug. We'll have that added strength," Barnaby said...
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...
Volkswagen is retaliating by stepping up its h.p. from 57 to 60 and producing two versions of its famed bug. Both will have essentially the same design as the model of 1970 or, for that matter, 1949. A new standard "mini-bug" will be stripped of some chrome and door pockets, but will be equipped with, among other improvements, an automatic switch that will cut off the headlights when the ignition is turned off. It will list for $1,780 on the East and Gulf coasts, compared with $1,839 for the '70 beetle...
...underground" programs superimposed on the official slate meant that we suffered perhaps 80-odd speakers where half that number might have better served. Probably we could have done without contributions made by the circulation manager for a Boston tabloid, the biologist who touted a miracle bug-killer (in which, it developed, he held some proprietary interest), the Time-Life poobah who saw no First Amendment dangers in newsmen being required to surrender their notes or tapes to Big Brother's agents in Washington, or the faculty-tie who severely lobbied in behalf of Foundations remaining untaxed despite those many abuses...
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