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...inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain in the course of harvesting." The party secretary of the Kirgiz Republic admitted that lazy farmers had allowed 20% of the arable land to revert to wilderness. Tadzhikistan's party secretary expressed fear that there would be serious failures in cotton deliveries unless collective farmers responded to his pleas that they revive "the former glory of our master cotton pickers...
...Texan's superiority complex, it is the fact that no Texas college has ranked No. i in the football polls for more than 20 years. No state takes the game more grimly. Rawboned youngsters begin locking noseguards in the second grade. Texas supports four bowl games (Cotton, Bluebonnet, Sun, Prairie View), three professional franchises, 30 college teams-and many of the nation's football bookmakers. The eight teams in the Southwest Conference* have produced some 65 All-Americas, are the breeding grounds for such superb professionals as Yale Lary, Kyle Rote, John David Crow and Bobby Layne. Still...
...body gowned in cotton and his soul cloaked in despair, the cancer patient held few hopes two decades ago when he was wheeled to the hospital radiotherapy room. X ray usually was tried when surgery was impossible. Successful treatments were few, and often bought at the cost of radiation burn, nausea, anemia, and pneumonitis...
...paced performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The plot hinges (and the hinge often creaks) on an attempt to trick Cap'n Cotchipee out of $500 so that Purlie can buy back Big Bethel Church and "preach freedom in the cotton patch...
...treat him as a twelve-year-old," insists his mother, who feels that "you couldn't drum all this into a child if he didn't want it." She hoped to get Lance into Harvard, cradle of child prodigies from Cotton Mather, who entered at twelve, to Cyberneticist Norbert Wiener, who was a graduate student at 14. But Harvard now looks askance at taking freshmen under 16. Caltech also rejected Lance because of his age (but will consider him as a graduate student...