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Bombing Business. Some hotel owners are finally recognizing that room rates have been excessively high (as much as $60 per day for a single room, without meals). Governor Luis Ferré's brother José, who last year bought the troubled Darlington Hotel and renamed it the Borinquen, has cut rates by a third and appealed for middle-class and convention customers. Other hotels, including La Concha and Flamboyan, have posted their off-season rates sooner-and dropped them down further-than last year. They are offering double rooms for $21 to $26 a day, about $20 less than...
Last spring, after only a year of healthy unsprayed ivy, Philip J. Darlington Jr., Agassiz Professor of Zoology said, "We need one more good summer before we know where we really stand...
Despite the saving in time and energy the spraying halt would mean, B and G planners are reluctant to stop, because not spraying might mean several years of defoliated ivy in June when the alumni are around. Darlington believes the spraying should stop and said, "It's a matter of principle not to spray if we don't have...
After five seasons of reduced ivy spraying, the biologists believe that the moths and parasites have struck an equilibrium. But "we haven't put in a recommendation yet because we have only had one good summer," Darlington said. "We need one more good summer before we know where we really stand...
...Mayr and Darlington both suggested that the disease would probably take a larger toll of Harvard's elms if the trees were left unsprayed. But others argue that spraying is simply a desperate attempt to "do something" about a crisis when every other approach has failed...