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...dingy College St.Joseph at Poitiers (pop. 52,633) last week rattled a dusty blue Renault bus. Three singers, a dancer, a pianist, an announcer and the driver got out, unloaded a few pieces of battered scenery and a stork's-nest snarl of electronic equipment. Inside the college's assembly hall the announcer (who doubles as electrician) checked the lights while the performers dotted scenery around the bare stage. Within an hour the seven-member pocket opera company was proving again what it had already shown in 148 other stops of its tour through the French provinces...
...ants do not destroy any specific crop. Their way of life is to tunnel underground, excavating a nest of interlaced chambers and building a solid mound about a foot high. Their food is juices sucked from plant roots and stems, seeds, tender shoots, and any insects or animals that they can kill. They go for fledgling birds, and even kill them in their eggs before they have quite hatched. Most conspicuous damage is done to vegetables...
...almost always effective, and generally the choice of the winning faction is the best available site. Once in a while, however, the demo cratic process fails an unlucky colony. In one tragic case, the factions debated for 14 days and reached no decision. At last the swarm built its nest in the open, and perished during the winter...
...himself with personal debts "approaching" $700,000, and went to work for the family business. Within two months Gerard Lambert was the company's general manager, "although I still had no office." Within seven years he had paid off all his debts and changed Listerine from a family nest egg into a national institution...
Efficient Killer. Prometheus, Dart concludes, must have been a prodigious hunter, because around his bones are scattered fragments of the antelope, giraffe, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotamus. He also fished the streams for water turtles and robbed the nest of the shrike. Giant rodent moles, wart hogs and porcupines were staples of his diet. No creature except modern man has ever been such an efficient killer, says Dr. Dart...