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...billion. On the one hand, Agriculture tries to control production. On the other, it spends millions for research on how to increase production. It issues special publications sufficient to fill a 104-page catalogue. Among the titles: "Influence of Certified Stocks on Spot-Futures Price Relationships for Cotton," "What You Should Know About Leptospirosis," and "Planning a Bathroom." One report is ponderously titled "Human Energy Expenditures as Criteria for Design of Household Storage Facilities." It explains how to design shelf space...
Thomas J. McIntyre defeated Republican Perkins Bass in the Senatorial contest, and Incumbent Republican Norris Cotton was re-elected over Alfred Catalfo. In the gubernatorial race Democrat John King defeated John Pillsbury...
Mississippi-born Robert Ernest Milner had scarcely learned to read when he decided there must be more to life than following a mule along the rows of a piney woods cotton farm. At seven, young Milner-dubbed "Dumas" by his family because he tagged after a hired hand by that name-signed up to sell an elixir called Rosebud Salve to neighboring farmers. In the 35 years since, Dumas Milner has never stopped selling, and last week he did his biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped...
...German-descended citizens of Pflugerville, Texas (pop.: 400), the most important things in life, in approximate order, are chores, church and football. White-faced cattle graze on Pflugerville's gently rolling farms, and snowy cotton flourishes in the rich Blacklands soil. On the Sabbath, almost the whole town turns out at the Lutheran church. But Friday is football day, and then placid Pflugerville twangs with tension. Each time the high school's Pflugerville Panthers take the field, they carry with them the winningest record in schoolboy football. In 52 straight games, stretching back to 1957, Pflugerville High...
...untamed vulgarity. In a skillfully modulated performance, Arthur Hill as George limns a memorable portrait of the sadist as A.B., M.A., Ph.D. George Grizzard makes Nick a moral chameleon with all the courage of his connections, and when Nature passed out brains, Melinda Dillon's Honey was given cotton candy. The charged intensity that Director Alan Schneider brings to an evening full of talk is based on one penetrating insight-talk can kill, and murder is rarely a bore...