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Malathion helps control the elm leaf beetle, which eats elm leaves. Louis F. Wells, a spokesman for the Massachusetts pesticide board said yesterday. He said the chemical is "not highly hazardous," based on the findings of pesticide studies...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Official Seeks Warning of Pesticide Use | 5/2/1979 | See Source »

...Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter Center. The movies in the New Personal Animation that are not products of the National Film Board of Canada, the British Film Institute, CalArts...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...note giving directions for a rendezvous with a cabin cruiser. The officers dressed up as deck hands, kept the appointment with the yacht, sold three 80-lb. bales of grass, and then arrested the American buyers. For each such capture, the Coast Guard cutter gets to display a marijuana leaf on its hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Colombian Connection | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...time either by the initial aggressor or by another bidder. Even Lipton, who with his pale, bland face and dark shapeless suits looks like an ambitious bank clerk, admits: "Cash offers are rarely defeated." Two years ago, he fended off Congoleum Corp.'s cash offer for Universal Leaf Tobacco. Says a Wall Street merger and acquisition specialist: "Marty tied Congoleum up for over eight months in the courts, and it got mauled so badly that it finally went away." The legal strategist representing Congoleum was Joe Flom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Guns for Hire | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...only professional goaltender to streak in Maple Leaf Gardens...

Author: By Jim Hershberg, | Title: Watch Out: One More (Stanley Cup) Final to Go | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

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