Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mime favors the silent treatment. Fresh from a three year, 53-city tour, Marceau, 55, has returned to Paris with some new acts. "It's harder and harder to innovate," he sighs. "My creations must always be more surprising." On Nov. 15 he will open a World Center for Mime on the Right Bank. The center, which already has 400 applicants, is largely underwritten by the city of Paris. "It's a dream that has been close to my heart," says Marceau. "The end of thirty years' effort...
...Davis: "Agriculture is now in perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process in brief: plant tissue is mushed up, placed in a clear, jelly-like mix of nutrients and injected with hormones
...bigger acres and make sure that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized yard just to park it. A partial inventory: four 15-ton trucks, three pickup trucks, seven tractors, three center-pivot irrigators and three wheat combines that cost $30,000 each, yet are used only about two weeks a year...
...devices. One of them: a herbicide sprayer with a receiver that catches any spray that does not hit a plant and recycles it into the pump, economizing on spray and preventing pollution of the ground. Another innovation is an irrigation system that covers even more ground than a center-pivot machine; it is a diesel-powered contraption that pushes a boom a half mile long and irrigates 320 acres at a crack...
After these high, fast steps, The Duchess of Duke Street hits its stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally...