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Across the prairie wheatfields, tractor headlights flickered through the night, and the clank of combines filled the still air. As farmers raced to beat late summer hailstorms, a harvest that defied drought, dust storms and the dire predictions of experts was moving in a golden stream last week to Canada's bins and elevators. The new wheat crop, estimated at 340 million bu., will probably be the smallest in four years -down sharply from 1956-57's huge 573.1 million bu. But it is so much better than anyone thought possible in early summer that many a wheat...
There are occasional sentences so strung with subsidiary clauses that they clank by like a slow freight in the Louisville & Nashville yards, and some of the family conversations contain too much of the truth of total recall. Yet the book thrusts and pulses with the joy of existence. It is a prayerful celebration of the truth that love can outlast death...
Before T (for test) time, all eyes look for the now familiar telltale signs: the radar search dish on the Cape begins rotating; crash boats put out to sea; the yellow warning spheres are hoisted atop the 90-ft. poles; the eight massive service towers and gantries clank and clatter. The tips of the missiles are often visible on the skyline. "Conducting tests on the Cape," said one missileman, "is like performing research in a fish bowl...
Finally, the last of the pressurized air whistled dryly out of the tank, and Biller heard the clank of eight bolts. It was 39 hours after he entered the chamber-30 hours since Eldon Smith died-when the entrance hatch opened and Bill Biller returned somberly to the world of the living...
...racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer to design an honest machine that would return coins when empty, then contracted with well-known candy-bar manufacturers to supply full-sized bars for a nickel, used neatly uniformed, bond ed employees to service the machines honestly...