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Zoologist Dieter Matthes of West Germany's Erlangen University has now proved that the males of the Malachiidae, a family of tiny beetles usually found in the tropics, entice the females first with a tarty nectar, then surreptitiously slip them an aphrodisiac to loosen their inhibitions...
Today only 26 stamps are known to exist of that first issue of 500 bearing Mr. Barnard's inconsequential slip, which made a philatelic byword out of the phrase "Post Office Mauritius." The one-and twopenny samples that were up for auction last week by the London firm of Robson Lowe, Ltd. had left Mauritius on a letter to a wine merchant in Bordeaux (it took 85 days to get there). As well as being rare, they were in excellent condition. So when the bidding reached ?27,500, Raymond H. Weill, a New Orleans dealer, made his only...
...brigades in Latin America and Africa, and there finds that the greater need is for cures and classes; today the Army operates 857 schools and 210 medical centers in 86 countries. Affluence has not by any means rendered the Army obsolete. "Even in the welfare state, some people slip through the net," the General says. "As long as there are human beings, there will be human needs that can only be handled on a person-to-person basis...
...politically savvy chief, James E. Webb, may keep the moon project in funds in spite of its threatened loss of appeal as a U.S. v. Russia horse race. But when space officials put aside their worries about getting money out of Congress, they admit that the moon project has slipped a little, and may slip more. Along with all its scientific and engineering troubles, it has a vital problem of personnel. One man, one savvy administrative expert such as the Navy's Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, who sent the all-important Polaris missile...
...Unless Havana's myriad censors slip up, these three men send out nothing that Castro does not approve of. Their dispatches are limited almost entirely to government communiqués and the anti-American salvos fired in perfect unison by Castro's captive Havana press. Although Castro keeps up the fiction that there is no press censorship, the Western newsmen know otherwise. Cables are often held up for days or forever; the Western Union office, staffed by Cubans, will not even acknowledge that a message has been sent, much less received. "Some times," says Harker, "not even...