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...book a rancid quality. Hellman's ugliness, sexual vamping and minor instances of social cowardice are all pounced on and recounted. In her introduction Mellen says that at times, when confronted with a problem, she would ask herself, "What would Lily do?" One thing is certain: she would burn this book...
Newt Gingrich has been learning that bitter lesson this year. The Republican House majority he led into Washington two years ago was the most impressive phalanx to enter the capital since the British came to burn it in 1814. As spearhead of the revolution his party was supposed to effect, Gingrich equipped himself heavily, putting aside the seniority rules to install committee chairmen loyal to him and denying his assistance as a fund raiser to House members who broke discipline on important votes. No journalist's story about him was complete until it described him as the most powerful Speaker...
...most poignant casualties of the 1996 drought have been the cattle, grazing on blighted fields of stubble. Feed prices have, in some instances, tripled, while prices for cattle have been plummeting. Trying to stave off the inevitable, ranchers south of San Antonio have been hiring day laborers to "burn pear," Texas lingo for applying a butane torch to the cactus and searing off the spines so that cattle can munch on what remains. But many ranchers across the affected regions have given up, offering at auction the creatures they can no longer afford to feed...
...BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN. --Paul, I Corinthians...
WILLIAM MAGEE, 52, and KATHLEEN MAGEE, 51; NORFOLK, VA.; founders of Operation Smile Plastic surgeon William and his social-worker wife Kathleen began "OpSmile" in 1982; since then it has performed surgery on 18,000 kids in 15 countries to correct--without charge--such disfigurements as cleft palates and burn scars, while training local doctors in the procedures. Says William: "The world is changed by emotion." On June 20, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will award the group a $1 million prize...