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...benefits to man are countless. The fragile inky cap is delicious if gathered young and cooked promptly. Lichen, formed by the union of fungi and algae, eats into rock, prepares it to become new soil. The molds that make Camembert are fungi; so are the yeasts that leaven bread and ferment grapes, grains, berries, cacti, honey and camel's milk into alcohol. Yeasts keep industry in ferment as well, assist in the manufacture of paint remover, antifreeze, synthetic rubber, adhesives, cosmetics and perfume. Yeast-feeding produces better pelts in mink, more honey from bees, faster growth in trout...
Other Castellamare residents argue that the soil was gradually loosened by moisture leaching down from hilltop lawn sprinklers. In any case, homeowners in Pacific Palisades and other "view" areas last week bombarded city officials with demands that all hillside construction be halted immediately. And no one was watering the daisies...
Denying rumors from Germany that the U.S. was considering withdrawal of its nuclear weapons from Europe, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asserted: "In 1961 I reported that there were literally thousands of warheads on European soil. They have continued to increase, and twelve months from today the number will be 100% higher than in 1961." McNamara proposed the creation of a defense ministers' committee to set up an improved consultation procedure on the use of nuclear weapons-in effect, a "hotline" network to replace the present dangerously slow diplomatic channels. The members would presumably be the U.S., Britain, West Germany...
Infected Astronauts. The returning astronauts themselves will be much more difficult to deal with than moon soil. Slow-growing germs or viruses may be lurking in their intestines and respiratory passages. The very least precaution that must be taken against them, says the panel, is to quarantine them rigidly for at least three weeks. But Deputy Surgeon General Dr. David E. Price, a member of the panel, believes that even this inhospitable welcome will not be enough. Says Dr. Price: "Quarantine is a crude approach to a problem of this sort. I would not feel safe in placing a large...
...prepare for that job, NASA has borrowed Dr. Lawrence Hall from the U.S. Public Health Service and given him the fanciful title of Planetary Quarantine Officer. A small project is getting under way in Houston to keep moon soil behind biological barriers while it is studied. But nothing yet has been done about quarantining the most likely carriers of extraterrestrial plagues: the returning astronauts...