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...that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...
...languages. Had City Lights been a failure, Hollywood would have been personally and bitterly depressed. But Hollywood was not depressed. Neither was it frightened. For though City Lights is a successful silent challenge to the talkies, its success derives solely from the little man with the battered hat, bamboo cane and black mustache. Critics agree that he, whose posterior would probably be recognized by more people throughout the world than would recognize any other man's face, will be doing business after talkies have been traded in for television...
...observes Mark Cane, associate professor of oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "there are a lot of signs that things are returning to normal." The atmospheric pressure gap between the eastern and western Pacific has eased, and trade winds are again blowing normally, from the east. Sensors in drifting buoys have recently recorded water temperatures in the mid-Pacific of 81°F, down by nearly 8°F from their May highs. Along the South American coast, waters remain unnaturally warm (as much as 6°F above their normal 78°), but the waters have slowly begun...
...Dick. After midnight, Mayor Manuel finally ordered a widespread evacuation, but by that time it was impossible for people to drive across the bridges leading to the mainland. Hundreds headed instead for the three Red Cross shelters. Said Cora Handy, 73, as she walked with the help of her cane through a shelter at a local school: "I just couldn't see that I could stay in my house, so I left. I was still trembling when I got here...
Only 121 million acres, or about 10% of Brazil's arable land, is used to grow crops. Over the next three years, the Brazilians hope to plant 2.5 million more acres with wheat, sugar cane, soybeans, rice, vegetables and fruit. Tens of thousands of poor farmers are moving into the fertile but undeveloped cerrados savannah region in the central plateau. In one area, the government is giving away 1,250 acres to each of 150 homesteaders...