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...unquenchable thirst. For all the bathtubs, dishwashers, washing machines and lawn sprinklers of an affluent era, home use of water still represents less than 10% of the nation's consumption. Nearly half goes for irrigation, another 40% for industry. It takes 770 gallons of water to refine a barrel of petroleum, up to 65,000 gallons to turn out a ton of steel, 600,000 gallons to make a ton of synthetic rubber...
...CRACKERBY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Burl Ives as a cracker-barrel billionaire...
...biggest cannon ever cast. The great barrel was 26 ft. long, and it fired a ball 3½ ft. in diameter that weighed 1,200 Ibs. On April 12, 1453, it opened fire on Constantinople, capital city of the Byzantine Empire and the gateway to Christian Europe. At the rate of seven shots a day, the big gun battered at the enormous walls and their 7,000 Christian defenders while an army of 80,000 Turks waited. At dawn on May 29, the Sultan's janissaries stormed the shattered walls and took the city. The spectacular final siege...
...golden twilight of the 19th century, most U.S. artists were mainly tourists. They had succumbed to what Henry James diagnosed as "the great American disease, the appetite for color and form, for the picturesque and romantic at any price." By the hundreds, they fled the industrial turmoil and cracker-barrel esthetics of their native U.S. for the postcard châteaux and quaint peasantry of Europe. But Ohio farmers on McCormick reapers did not fit into pretty landscapes as nicely as Normans driving oxcarts; few artists returned able to apply lessons learned abroad to the U.S. scene...
Died. George R. Lamade, 71, second-generation publisher of the conservative, family-owned weekly newspaper Grit (circ. 1,170,000), a favorite in 16,000 U.S. small towns, who kept up his father's policy of salting the news with cracker-barrel sayings (sample: "When things begin to appear hopeless and desolate, try looking in the other direction."); by his own hand (gunshot); in Williamsport...