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Headier Harvests. The greening of America, homestyle, started in earnest early last spring when produce prices went as high as an elephant's eye. In protest, city dwellers and exurbanites alike turned lawns into miniature back forties, filled patios with planters (often made with old washtubs or auto tires...
Khalid, variously known to his countrymen as "the quiet prince" and "the man of the desert," is a most reluctant monarch. Like Faisal, he had a circumscribed education, acquired in mosque schools and with Islamic tutors. From childhood he was close to Faisal, and although he served under his elder...
Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among...
In the classic memoir, Shooting an Elephant, Orwell recalls the morning a behemoth ran wild and stomped a coolie. The animal might have been saved, but the psychology of the moment demanded a kill. "Here was I," recalled the ex-official, "the white man with his gun, standing in front...
Queenly Beehive. At 8:37 a.m., the propitious moment selected by court astrologers more than a year earlier, the royal priest placed the mammoth jewel-encrusted crown on the King's head and a diamond tiara atop Queen Aishwarya's beehive hairdo. Then came salutes from the King...