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First Edition. Octavo, 294 pages, black cloth; some pencilled glossing. NOTE: the dust jacket features a startling photograph of a man holding a pair of scissors and apparently attempting to cut off his own nose! Chapter One and Two cover Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING. The rest continues as a controversial expose of the catastrophe-minded do-gooders of the Sixties and early Seventies who, through ignorance, exaggeration, and extremism, have wheadled or threatened lawmakers and the public into making new laws, new rules, and new guidelines to govern what must - or must not - be made. sold, bought, and used in the United States.