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...Joined battle with 50 neighbors over his right to establish a private heliport in his backyard...
...advocates on two counts: not only does a firestorm-producing blast render defence of the metropolitan area impossible (the central city being the target); but if the bomb is detonated at that height, fall-out is minimized. Piel thus presents the vision of people being suffocated and cremated in backyard shelters, protecting themselves against fall-out that will never rain...
...whistles again, they fell to a new set of tasks, hurrying to simple workshops to make canvas shoes, coarse paper or cotton cloth, and to primitive blast furnaces to make pig iron out of low-grade local ore. Across the land, fires from the 2,000,000 tiny "backyard furnaces" lit the night sky. "Everything into the pot!" was the kanpu slogan. The communes put up their own money to buy equipment for new mines, factories, furnaces. Foreign visitors saw cotton gins made of boxes and old boards, textile machinery with wooden parts. In Sinkiang, when they...
Cats take sex seriously, as anyone who has tuned in on a city backyard on a summer night can testify. The unaltered male is belligerent, grumpy, concentrates only on the sex or lack of it in his life; his urine contains a special additive that can attract a romantically inclined female at a range of 150 yards. And the unspayed female makes a rotten pet. When in heat (in some cats, as often as every two weeks), she becomes outrageously wanton, rolling about, rubbing herself suggestively on the furniture, and yelling for a mate. To stop this erotic behavior before...
...there is a clash between function and style, function will win." says Lady Bird. "I want it to be gracious enough, but it would be out of keeping to expect us to do something really very elegant." Accordingly, there is a brand-new. $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard. And Mrs. Johnson has her eye on a "funny little crooked apple tree" outside one of her bedroom windows, on which she plans to hang temple bells that she picked up in Bangkok...