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Aircraft Disinsection
Though life has brought me close to several of the world's great catastrophes it has so far spared me involvement in any of them. We had left Czechoslovakia in 1967 a good month before the Soviet tanks rolled in and displaced Mr Dubchek. Fair go! I got out of Bangladesh in 1975 nearly a week before the military coup that overthrew the elected...
Blue Pacific
It was the rhinoceros beetle that took me to the Pacific, though chance and kind friends played their part. As a topic form my MSc thesis, I had hoped to get something that might help me to find gainful employment somewhere outside Christchurch Tech. The studies of limpets and sea squirts and the like which were popular at the time didn't...