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...than Death Valley." We started to ask why Central Kitchen wanted to maintain a virtual desert in its midst, but just then Mr. Whiteside called our attention to several trays coming along on one of the moving belts. "Just watch that fresh lettuce," he beamed, "curls up like a caterpillar after four seconds in here." We watched entranced as other salad ingredients made the quick trip from one wall to the other...
Berlitz & Button-Downs. Some U.S. businessmen, of course, have been looking abroad for quite some time: Coca-Cola, Caterpillar Tractor, National Cash Register and Colgate-Palmolive get 40% or more of their sales abroad, and their trademarks are as recognizable abroad as at home. The armies of American executives who became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued...
...dollars' worth of lumber each year. But in some areas fires run second to the boring, chomping insect hordes that eat their way through the forest, leaving wide patches in ruin. Last week a Russian scientist reported considerable success in a kind of bacteriological warfare against a pesky caterpillar that attacks Siberia's vast evergreen forests...
Stirred into water and sprayed on the advancing insect armies, the mix starts a deadly chain reaction, one caterpillar infecting another until they are wiped out. Better yet, some infected caterpillars live long enough to spin cocoons. For years the rain that trickles over the dead cocoons spreads virulent spores and protects the forest from a new invasion of caterpillars...
...guinea pig, he once swallowed a whole spoonful of the spray without ill effects.) The first tests have been so successful that the spray is being produced in large quantities by a factory in Moscow. There is also a possibility that the spray will control another leaf-eating caterpillar, which attacks deciduous trees. Another promising victim for Talalayev's biological warfare: the viciously biting black fly that makes life miserable each spring for man and beast in Siberia, Canada and the northern...