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...right. We've been kidding you in the past. The CRIMSON really doesn't win every game it plays by a 23-2 score. In fact it practically never does. But yesterday, behind the pitching of Peter (The Kid) Kann, and the hitting of Rick (Big Stick) Cotton, the CRIMSON humbled some inept WHRBies, 23-2. Even we couldn't believe it. Just for good measure, a second game was played. The score? That's right...
...skated rings around the Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and $2,000 per man. - > Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche: the 26-mile, 385-yd. Boston Marathon, thus becoming the 17th foreigner to win the Patriot's Day race in the last 18 years. A bookkeeper in a cotton mill, Vandendriessche, 30, loped leisurely through the Newton hills, had no thought of winning until two miles from the finish when he found Ethiopia's heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut...
After the great mechanical mulchers have completed their clattering passage; after the green seedlings have sprouted above black ribbons of polyethylene plastic (TIME, April 19) and the chemical spray guns have finished their hissing attack on bug and weed, the most modern cotton fields in the U.S. are likely to resound to an unexpected and old-fashioned racket. Day after day, nearly a million geese honk their way across the carefully tended farmland. In a time of rising costs and declining markets, cotton growers are showing an expanding enthusiasm for an antiquated agricultural technique known as "cotton goosing...
Geese can be bought for $3 apiece, or rented for as little as $1.50 a season, and their ravenous appetites make them more than a match for marauding Johnson grass-a hardy weed that sprouts between the cotton rows again and again, despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback...
...backed by the Japanese government with low-interest loans and low-rate investment in surance. Japan calculates that this investment will even out its slight imbalance of trade with Latin America; last year it sold $224 million worth of goods to the area, but bought $225 million worth, mostly cotton and other raw materials. The new factories will not only use Japanese parts, but also, as one Japanese businessman explains, "will make Latin America wealthier, and thus open big markets for our consumer goods...