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...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
...minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
...your article on the New York City public schools. It is an intelligent and moving insight into the tortuous process of adapting education from its aristocratic traditions into an instrument of service to a democracy . . . By faith, the public schools are trying to move cultural mountains . . . Some of the trigger-happy your critics article, should be and then required to take ' do a homework on postgraduate course at the feet of Principal [Margaret] Douglas and other devoted members of the system...
...unlikely material: pigeon livers. "You have to follow your nose," he says. "You don't map it out. You try one experiment, then another, and bring some sense into it." This method led him, by 1945, to the isolation of coenzyme A, one of the most important trigger chemicals in the body. Dr. Lipmann has shown that his coenzyme is a factor in the body's production of vital substances such as fatty acids and steroid hormones. Some researchers hope that it may help to track down the cause of cancer, but Dr. Lipmann says modestly: "Our type...
Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...