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...French and British attaches usually come armed with bulging catalogues describing?in Sears, Roebuck fashion?the products manufactured by their nations' defense industries. The limited-distribution, four-volume edition put out by the French, for example, promises that the MILAN antitank missile will provide "unrivalled firing power ... against the ever increasing number of armored vehicles on the battlefield...
...sight that greeted the curators of Milan's Gallery of Modern Art one morning last week looked like another ho-hum piece of conceptual art: 28 picture frames lying flat on the parquet floor. In fact, it was another Italian spe cialita della casa-art theft. In the hours before dawn, thieves had broken in through a window and spirited off about $2.3 million worth of paintings left to the museum in 1956 by Sicilian Industrialist Carlo Grassi. The haul included a Cezanne, a Bonnard, a Renoir, a Vuillard, a Van Gogh, a Gauguin, a Millet and a brace...
...start of the U.S. Army's "blackbird control program." Last fall the birds had descended on southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee like a biblical plague. In addition to Fort Campbell's flock of 5 million, there were almost 10 million birds at the military arsenal in nearby Milan, Tenn.. and another 1.5 million in the town of Paducah, Ky. The blackbirds battened on feed meant for livestock, and their droppings might spread histoplasmosis, a lung disease. Before retaliating, the Army issued an environmental statement, and defeated court suits brought by two humane societies (TIME, Feb. 24). Then...
...birds' feathers. Cold weather did the rest: 20% of the birds died. A few nights later, the Army went to work at Fort Campbell without waiting for rain. Huey helicopters sprayed the blackbirds with detergent, then fire trucks doused them with water. Meanwhile, the birds at the Milan arsenal have been left alone-until the next rainy cold spell. But the Army still stands a good chance of losing the war. The surviving blackbirds proliferate so rapidly that huge new flocks will doubtless return next year...
...hogs are driven from the feed lots, children's slides are covered with bird droppings." The damage to the area is already estimated at $2.6 million. That figure does not include the damage done by a similar flock of 7 million birds around the Army arsenal at nearby Milan, Tenn. Nor do the costs take into account two bird-borne diseases: gastroenteritis, which is often fatal to baby pigs, and histoplasmosis-caused by a fungal spore in the bird droppings-which produces lung damage in humans...