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...tightly woven chain links. Said George Norris, Houston manager for Anchor Post Products, Inc., which will build the fence for $2,015,000: "It's the heaviest construction I've ever seen on a fence." Because the grating is razor sharp, Norris added, anyone climbing the fence barefoot would "leave his toe permanently embedded...
Hsinching has a population of 21,626; the peasants privately own and cultivate 8% of the land. The commune has a busy, fair-sized hospital staffed by 30 nurses and 40 paramedics, "barefoot" doctors: its bare-toothed dentist boasts that every last piece of equipment was made in Shanghai...
...amounts of unearned purchasing power. It was spent to build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when the Spaniards went through their gold, they invested nothing-and economically they entered the 17th century barefoot. The question for us is: Have we found a way to build an affluent society? Are we putting enough back into the system so that we can assure our capacity to produce a high standard of living for our heirs...
What manner of man was this new world celebrity? The week brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
...litigant spirit that is most unsettling. If one can blame the Government for a lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned in a lake thus...