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What was striking about the Carter proposals was their familiarity. In philosophy, they represent a return to the broad-brush, stockpiling farm-management policies introduced more than four decades ago. These policies were abandoned by Richard Nixon's aggressive, foot-in-mouth Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz, a dedicated free marketeer. Butz's emphasis on an all-out export drive for farm products yielded spectacular results, including a threefold increase in the domestic price of wheat-but that was largely the result of bad harvests in China and the Soviet Union. One form of Government intervention that even Butz...
Authorities have sent in 4,856 fire fighters, toting "Pulaskis"-a combination hoe and ax-and "McClouds"-a wide rake. On twelve-hour shifts, the crews cut brush and trees with hand tools and chain saws to bar the approaching blaze. Most find the service exhilarating. Said one woman from Santa Cruz: "It's the most exciting thing anyone...
...South last week, soaking parched reservoirs, saving some thirsty crops and providing water for swimming pools and lawn sprinklers -but no such fortune befell the West and Southwest. There drought stubbornly persisted like a biblical plague, withering corn and wheat, drying up horse and cattle water holes, kindling brush and forest fires (including some 400 in California), and cutting back on water and energy supplies for about 30 million Americans...
...burgeoning in the midst of a peace guaranteed by authority-such was Rubens' master image. And although he was capable of excruciating flatteries when painting the great (notably his greedy, capricious patroness in France, Marie de Medicis), he seems never, granted his convictions, to have painted an insincere brush stroke in his life...
...Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ducal Palace in Mantua - which may be the silliest indulgence since Truman Capote last compared himself to Marcel Proust. However, they are certainly among the most beautiful declamations in the language of the brush to have been uttered anywhere in the past 20 years...