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...transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family may be the most endangered species of all major groups of plants." Cactologists list 90 native kinds as endangered or threatened. Even the commonest specimens, like the rainbow, rattail and small-barrel cacti, are swiftly disappearing from some areas...
...easy man to judge; he sends out too many unexpected signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general
Democrats have a better alternative. First, by not adopting the Republican tax cut, we can eliminate a large part of the expected shortfall in government revenues. Then, in addition to curbing the pork-barrel projects already mentioned, we can further reduce the deficit and help control inflation by attacking two of the largest and least scrutinized areas of the Federal budget--tax loopholes and defense spending...
...executives get older and more mature, Cronin says, they gain confidence and perspective, along with a little humor. Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca, whose job is hardly a barrel of laughs these days, quipped when a shareholder asked him to comment on his self-imposed $1 a year salary: "Oh, don't worry. I spend it very carefully." Says Cronin: "From what I've seen of him, Iacocca has a sense of humor. God help him if he doesn't." Cronin believes that young executives who show no humor are missing an important lesson. Success in any field...
...afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel a Bentley around his minuscule Channel Island home of Alderney until the evening he dropped in-literally-on a fisherman friend; he drove the car right into F.F.'s parlor. Thereafter, he took to toddling...