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Benjamin Dane '56 and Charles Walcott '56 are "experts" in the domestic caterpillar trade. Since September, the two have been raising the multi-feeted insects and feeding them chemically-treated, frozen oak leaves...
After raising a bumper catepillar crop one summer. Walcott realized that the oak season would soon be over, leaving nothing to feed the baby caterpillars; hence the idea of frozen caterpillar food originated...
...started with oak leaves and used the same process you'd ordinarily use for spinach," Walcott explained yesterday, "and boiled the leaves for two minutes before freezing. But the catepillars had to be coaxed to eat them and didn't grow a whit, so we added vitamins and got better results...
Last week reporters' efforts to spot trends in the races for governor, Senator and President produced little results in New Mexico. One New Mexico politician had this advice: "You'll just have to wait until November. By then the scrub oak will be red, and so will the faces of a lot of political experts...
...energy plants, could learn the rest. When the huge, gaseous diffusion plant is completed about four years from now, Goodyear will employ only 4,000 to keep it running, will be paid a cost-plus fixed fee for the job. Meanwhile, Union Carbide & Carbon, which runs AEC's Oak Ridge and Paducah uranium plants, will teach Goodyear the ropes...