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Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today. | conducted | {
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Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today. | endangering | {
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Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today. | said | {
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`` It is like handing a loaded.45 automatic to an 8 - year-old and telling him to run out and play '', he commented. | is | {
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`` It is like handing a loaded.45 automatic to an 8 - year-old and telling him to run out and play '', he commented. | commented | {
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Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant. | told | {
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Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant. | failed | {
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Buchheister told delegates to the West Coast Audubon Convention that aerial spraying in Louisiana failed to destroy its target, the fire ant. | destroy | {
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`` But it did destroy the natural controls of a borer and released a new plague that wrecked a sugar cane crop '', he said. | destroy | {
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`` But it did destroy the natural controls of a borer and released a new plague that wrecked a sugar cane crop '', he said. | said | {
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The conservation leader said other mistakes in spraying had caused serious damage in Ohio and Wyoming. | said | {
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The conservation leader said other mistakes in spraying had caused serious damage in Ohio and Wyoming. | caused | {
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There have even been serious errors in the U. S. Forest Service, whose officials pride themselves in their scientific training, he added. | been | {
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There have even been serious errors in the U. S. Forest Service, whose officials pride themselves in their scientific training, he added. | pride | {
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There have even been serious errors in the U. S. Forest Service, whose officials pride themselves in their scientific training, he added. | added | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | reach | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | forgetting | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | are | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | encouraged | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | try | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | get rid of | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | peck | {
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`` The news of their experiments reach the farmers who, forgetting that birds are the most efficient natural enemies of insects and rodents, are encouraged to try to get rid of all birds that occasionally peck their grapes or their blueberries '', Buchheister told the delegates. | told | {
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In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; preservation of the wetlands where birds breed ; a pesticides co-ordination act ; stronger water pollution control programs, and Federal rati... | urging | {
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In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; preservation of the wetlands where birds breed ; a pesticides co-ordination act ; stronger water pollution control programs, and Federal rati... | called for | {
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In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; preservation of the wetlands where birds breed ; a pesticides co-ordination act ; stronger water pollution control programs, and Federal rati... | including | {
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In addition to urging greater restrictions on aerial spraying, Buchheister called for support of the Wilderness bill, creation of national seashore parks, including Point Reyes ; preservation of the wetlands where birds breed ; a pesticides co-ordination act ; stronger water pollution control programs, and Federal rati... | halt | {
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The Reed Rogers Da Fonta Wild Life Sanctuary in Marin county on Friday officially became the property of the National Audubon Society. | became | {
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Mrs. Norman Livermore, president of the Marin Conservation League, handed over the deed to the 645 - acre tidelands tract south of Greenwood Beach to Carl W. Buchheister, president of the Society. | handed over | {
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The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield. | made | {
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Buchheister pledged the land would be an `` inviolate '' sanctuary for all birds, animals and plants. | pledged | {
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Buchheister pledged the land would be an `` inviolate '' sanctuary for all birds, animals and plants. | be | {
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Seventeen years ago today, German scientist Willy Fiedler climbed into a makeshift cockpit installed in a V-1 rocket-bomb that was attached to the underbelly of a Heinkel bomber. | climbed | {
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The World War 2, German bomber rolled down a runway and took off. | rolled | {
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This had never been done before. | done | {
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Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed 's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy 's Polaris missile. | is | {
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Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed 's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy 's Polaris missile. | played | {
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He sat in his office yesterday and recalled that historic flight in 1944. | sat | {
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He sat in his office yesterday and recalled that historic flight in 1944. | recalled | {
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`` The first two pilots had crashed '', he said. | crashed | {
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`` The first two pilots had crashed '', he said. | said | {
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`` I had developed the machines and therefore knew them. | developed | {
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`` I had developed the machines and therefore knew them. | knew | {
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It was time to go up myself ''. | was | {
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It was time to go up myself ''. | go up | {
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Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler 's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war. | was | {
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Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler 's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war. | remained | {
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About 200 of the special V-1 rocket-bombs were to be made ready for manned flight with an explosive warhead. | made | {
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The target was Allied shipping - a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe. | was | {
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The target was Allied shipping - a desperate effort to stave off the Allied invasion of Europe. | stave off | {
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The success of the project depended upon Fiedler 's flight. | depended upon | {
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Squeezed into the few cubic feet normally filled by the rocket 's automatic guidance mechanism, the scientist waited while the bomber gained altitude. | waited | {
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Squeezed into the few cubic feet normally filled by the rocket 's automatic guidance mechanism, the scientist waited while the bomber gained altitude. | gained | {
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At 12000 feet, Fiedler signaled `` release '', and started the roaring pulse-jet engine - then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel. | signaled | {
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At 12000 feet, Fiedler signaled `` release '', and started the roaring pulse-jet engine - then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel. | started | {
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At 12000 feet, Fiedler signaled `` release '', and started the roaring pulse-jet engine - then streaked away from beneath the Heinkel. | streaked | {
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To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m. p. h.. | became | {
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To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m. p. h.. | hurtling | {
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It was probably man 's first successful flight in a missile. | was | {
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`` She flew beautifully '', said Fiedler. | flew | {
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`` She flew beautifully '', said Fiedler. | said | {
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`` There was only one power control - a valve to adjust the fuel flow. | was | {
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`` There was only one power control - a valve to adjust the fuel flow. | adjust | {
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I had exactly 20 minutes to get down to the test strip ''. | had | {
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I had exactly 20 minutes to get down to the test strip ''. | get | {
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Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket 's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage. | Using | {
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Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket 's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage. | controlled | {
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Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket 's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage. | land | {
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He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m. p. h. - fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown - and banked into the airfield. | managed | {
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He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m. p. h. - fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown - and banked into the airfield. | maneuver | {
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He managed to maneuver the missile to a landing speed of 200 m. p. h. - fast even for a modern jet plane touchdown - and banked into the airfield. | banked | {
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Moments later the V-1 skimmed across the landing strip, edging closer and closer to a touchdown - then in a streamer of dust it landed. | skimmed | {
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Moments later the V-1 skimmed across the landing strip, edging closer and closer to a touchdown - then in a streamer of dust it landed. | edging | {
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Moments later the V-1 skimmed across the landing strip, edging closer and closer to a touchdown - then in a streamer of dust it landed. | landed | {
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Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles. | went on | {
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Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles. | make | {
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Fiedler went on to make several other test flights before German pilots took over the Reichenberg missiles. | took over | {
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The missiles were to be armed with an underwater bomb. | were | {
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The missiles were to be armed with an underwater bomb. | armed | {
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Pilots would steer them in a suicide dive into the water, striking below the waterline of individual ships. | steer | {
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Pilots would steer them in a suicide dive into the water, striking below the waterline of individual ships. | striking | {
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A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands. | formed | {
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A crack corps of 50 pilots was formed from the ranks of volunteers, but the project was halted before the end of the war, and the missiles later fell into Allied hands. | fell into | {
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Now a family man with three children, Fiedler lives in a quiet residential area near the Lockheed plant at Sunnyvale. | lives | {
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