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...building, like love and war, exerts a powerful attraction. Jonathan and Judith Souweine (pronounced Suh-wayne) succumbed three years ago. They bought part of an old hayfield on the outskirts of Amherst, Mass. "Look north and you see a hillside orchard topped with two giant maples locally known as Castor and Pollux," writes Tracy Kidder. "Look a little east and your view extends out over a broad valley, all the way to the Pelham Hills." The Souweines fit the profile of young New England professionals. He is a lawyer; she has a doctorate in education. Both have liberal opinions...
Chanslor apparently abandoned the No-Pest idea but asked to meet with Minnery in Toronto last April to talk about another poison, ricin, which is derived from the castor bean and is difficult to trace even when a doctor knows to look for it. By this time, says Minnery, he had concluded that the discussions were perhaps not entirely academic, and he alerted Ontario police, who in turn contacted Houston authorities. A tape recording was made of the Toronto meeting at which Chanslor paid $500 to have a capsule of ricin brought to him in Houston. During the Houston meeting...
...General Services Administration $100 million to start buying as many as 15 materials for the National Defense Stockpile. In addition to high-temperature metals used in jet engines, such as cobalt, titanium and columbium, the Government will consider buying oddities like sisal fibers, a key ingredient for rope; castor-bean oil, a high-quality lubricant; and pyrethrum, an insecticide. While the amounts are not yet great, they represent a new direction in policy. Said Congressman James Santini, a Democrat from Nevada, "This is both a substantive and symbolic beginning. It's long overdue...
...gasoline taxes. The gas hike was the key article in the Tory budget that was rejected by Parliament last December-the immediate cause of elections. Said Secretary of State David MacDonald, one of three Clark ministers who lost their Commons seats: "There was a feeling we were administering castor oil; people never take very kindly to castor oil." Newfoundland's John Crosbie, the Finance Minister who conceived the budget, was bitter. Said he: "There has never been an election where you say to people, 'You should pay more...
...Pollock, Gorky, de Kooning, Still, Rothko, Kline, Motherwell?was recognized across the Atlantic, and the aesthetic colonization of Europe by New York art began in earnest. In this momentous shift of taste, energy and locus, a younger generation of American artists would be the legatees. Its symbolic twins, its Castor and Pollux, were Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns...