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...Cover) Her feet are too big. Her nose is too long. Her teeth are uneven. She has the neck, as one of her rivals has put it, of "a Neapolitan giraffe." Her waist seems to begin in the middle of her thighs, and she has big, half-bushel hips. She runs like a fullback. Her hands are huge...
...survey, decimalization would save teachers up to 50% of the time they now take to teach children mathematics. In addition, English children often have to memorize the medieval apothecaries' scale (20 grains to a scruple), linear measure (40 rods to the furlong), dry measure (4 pecks to the bushel) and liquid measure (52.5 imperial gallons to a hogshead...
Ballads by the bushel have since embellished the fame of El Cid. Pierre Corneille made him the hero of France's first great play, Le Cid. Jules Massenet turned the play into an opera. And now Samuel Bronston. who recently made an appalling spectacle of the life of Christ (King of Kings), has produced the first film version of the legend. Inevitably, the picture is colossal-it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines...
...their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which the Administration was buying at the handsome support price of $2.30 a bushel...
...short end of that wishbone. Hounded by the heartless censors, her lover dies in a highway accident, surviving just long enough to reach a telephone and gasp into the mouthpiece-sure enough-those three little words. To the Kleenex corps, each one of them will be worth a bushel of Bermuda onions...