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...long as it is free of Government interference, but this is about his only point of agreement with Freeman. As the American Farm Bureau Federation elected Shuman to his seventh term as president, he called for an end to all federal farm controls. Free man said that "fang and claw" marketing would "cut farm income a third," but Shuman retorted: "Those who have been predicting that farmers would drown in a sea of surplus with Depression-level prices if farm programs were ended must be embarrassed to discover that this result has been achieved un der the Great Society...
...They are animals, but first of all they are theatrical animals. They hold the stage like a military position. An actor long before he became a playwright, Pinter writes scenes with which actors can rivet an audience's attention. His stage animals circle and sniff and snarl and claw at each other, and the odor of vitality permeates the playhouse. These animals have been released from the cages of the poor; they are nasty and virulent over trifles, since the little they have to lose is their all. In this asphalt-jungle world, all trust has been lost...
Poor and yearning little girls are standard fixtures in hardscrabble literature. Most of them, like little Clara Walpole, scheme and claw their way up from a knockabout childhood and finally wear silk dresses and live in the biggest house for miles around. But if Clara seems to be a drearily familiar type, there is a magical naturalistic quality in this book that makes her one of the most pathetically provocative literary heroines of the year...
Blue-Green Earth. In Washington, NASA showed the first moon movies, pieced together from still pictures shot by Surveyor during its first lunar day. One film strip showed the spacecraft's claw digging a small trench in the soil. Another, taken at sunset, followed the edge of lunar night as it swallowed Surveyor's lengthening shadow and moved on across the crater until only a few high clumps of rocklike material remained lighted against a black...
Half-Inch Accuracy. Surveyor's virtuoso performance was still to come. Noticing a clod of soil dug out of one of its trenches, the craft closed its claw on the clump, biting off about two cubic inches of soil. Carefully clutching its prize, Surveyor maneuvered it into position and then dropped it on one of its footpads, much like a child dropping a handful of sand on its shoe...