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...India (the Ganges River and its banks in this case) is laid before us with magnificent color photography--not like a wooden travelogue but as life, flowing like the river. Likewise we are shown the tense and wonderful and painful world of the adolescent daughter of a jute mill supervisor and two of her friends, all three of whom fall in love with a visiting American. In catching the aching mood of this adolescent world, Renoir is aided by the excellent performances of Patricia Walters (the heroine, the "I" of the novel), Adrienne Corri (the beautiful girl who scores...
...Earl Duclus, field supervisor of mosquito control for the Los Angeles health department [TIME, Aug. 13], apparently has a typical California pressagent . . . The territory of Hawaii has had a mosquito control board for a number of years. It operates so efficiently that it even inspects flowerpots in private homes, to search out breeding spots for mosquitoes...
...field supervisor of mosquito control for the city health department, Pest-Hunter Duclus uses modern methods. All through the summer mosquito hunting season he and his men spray DDT into swamps, tidal flats, ponds and irrigation ditches. But Duclus says he owes much of his success to the voracious appetite of a small (2-in.) fish called Gambusia affinis. This olive-colored, viviparous cousin of the guppy thrives in the stagnant waters where mosquitoes breed, lives to a ripe old age of two or three years, and never loses its taste for wriggling insect larvae. In its prime, Gambusia affinis...
...Happen There. In Los Angeles, a proposed law requiring fan dancers to carry identification cards "at all times" was defeated when County Supervisor Roger Jessup asked: "Where...
...students taking the exam must present their tickets of admission along with their Selective Service classification cards or Draft identification cards to the supervisor. Stanley Leonard, who is in charge of registration here, will administer the examination at Memorial Hall...