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...Hammond Bay, Mich., lab, found a jar with its two larvae dead and its four little fish alive and frisky. The tricky compound that did the job best was 3-trifluormethyl-4-nitrophenol- more handily known as TFM. Developed by Government Biologist Vernon Applegate, TFM reaches into the mud and attacks lamprey larvae. Millions of them pop out of their burrows and writhe helplessly for hours before they...
...Above-The Mud Below...
Jackie Gleason, the massive Minnesota Fats in The Hustler, once observed that poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table...
...small room in the house on stilts was blue with cigar smoke as the three princes and the general argued the final details. Slovenly soldiers of all three factions loitered on the porch, sometimes poked their heads curiously through the glassless windows. Below, amid mud puddles and stray dogs, newsmen scrambled for vantage points...
...came when a Shell Oil drill crew found rotary mud gushing from one of its wells. Rotary mud is forced down new holes to cool drill tips, and the Shell crew concluded that another drill had pierced its well shaft. A search quickly turned up the pirate rig-3,000 ft. away over the piny hills. At Shell's complaint, the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates oil production in the state, ordered a crew of engineers into the field...