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...Birdie ranges farthest, and perhaps most enjoyably, afield when Dancer Rivera crashes a Shriners' dinner and starts a small Keystone Comedy chase, now around the table, now on it, now under it. One reason why Birdie lands on its feet is that it is so seldom off them. People rarely sit, or even stand still; they drop funny remarks hastening in one direction, not so funny ones fleeing in another. Musically the show travels rather light, once or twice with an empty suitcase. But Bye Bye Birdie successfully elevates freshness above slickness, playfulness above workmanship, and can boast...
Many co-ops have spread far afield of agriculture, own oil wells, tankers, insurance companies, banks, paper mills, lumber yards, phone companies, hospitals and even mortuaries. The Consumers Cooperative Association, a farm organization headquartered at Kansas City, owns three oil refineries, 1,000 or so oil wells, 935 miles of pipelines, three fertilizer plants, two feed mills, a steel-fabricating plant, a paint and grease factory and a packinghouse, counts assets of $118 million. Grossing $154 million last year, Consumers had a net of $10.3 million. It paid only $1,237,000 in taxes, less than one-fourth the federal...
...beginning of life on any planet, including the earth. "Space travelers," says Gold, "may have visited the earth a billion years ago, and from their abandoned garbage forms of life have proliferated so that the microbes will soon have another agent (space-traveling humans) capable of spreading them farther afield...
...acre northern California sanctuary, Wyntoon, for an estimated $2.000,000 annual return. Berlin has also invested in new properties whenever the risk looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...
...hills surrounding a vast ranch far out in the bush. In the outback country he found a shifting population of aborigines. The old people led him along circuitous trails to their usual Wondjina pictures, and "touched" them for him (Lommel swears the rain came each time). But forging farther afield himself, Lommel came to other rock drawings the natives themselves had never seen, and knew nothing about...