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Starting from the sub-cellar, Portfolio erected a Harvard football edifice which was in those days the envy and despair of every other team in the country. The curtain was raised on a new era of Harvard happiness and on a series of victors which constituted the crop which was to be reaped from Portfolio's seeds of ingenuity and a just award of his ability...
...makes a national program essential. Without federal funds, the $47 billion interstate highway system would be beyond the states' resources. Without federal regulatory laws, railroads and airlines, radio and television, interstate business and national labor unions would be subject to 50 separate state codes. And as long as crop quotas and price supports exist, a uniform federal program for agriculture is the only bar to total chaos...
...petit bourgeois whose roots ran deep in France's soil, Balzac never really escaped his origins. Of life he demanded money, love and magic -the themes of all his books-and spent them faster than they came in. He dreamed of the $100,000 pineapple crop he would harvest from the slope of his modest villa in Ville-d'Avray, of fortunes in old Roman silver to be found in Sardinia-meanwhile hiding from creditors in the home of one of his married mistresses...
...heart of Cholon's business activity is stretched along the Saigon River, a black, stagnant ribbon of water clogged with gaudy sampans and lined by crumbling warehouses. Into these godowns flows virtually all of Saigon's rice (Chinese control 90% of the nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls...
...recalls were caused by irritating rubs and rattles. Such defects are inevitable. "We now manufacture passenger cars which average about 14,000 parts each," wrote G.M. President James M. Roche in his covering letter to G.M.'s list. "It is hardly surprising under these circumstances that imperfections sometimes crop...