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...interest in preserving and justifying their functions and powers. Another factor is sentimentality-a feeling that farm life fosters the old-fashioned virtues. Many defenders of the price-support system argue it is needed to preserve the family farm, that disappearance of the family farm would weaken the moral fabric of the nation. And then-there's politics. The farm population has been declining for many decades, but farmers still make up a substantial enough minority in many states that legislators are wary of offending the farm vote. Finally, there is the brute fact of overproduction: the current output...
...particles. Wald's conclusion is not that this approach has something for everyone, but the best for everyone. His belief derives from a conversion of values over the last fifteen years: he finds that biology is better woven into the scientific unity of the universe than into simply historical fabric. Thus physics and chemistry come into the course occasionally so that the biology is teachable mainly at the molecular level...
...very serious." Fidgeting with his rarely looking up from his speaking undramatically and times inaudibly, George Marshall went into a somber description Europe's losses--"the visible destion of cities . . . factories, mines, roads . . . long-standing committees, private institutions, banks, insurance companies, and shipping "--in short, the--"dislocation the entire fabric of European economy...
...travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric colors, contemporary Spanish chests and floor pillows, and picked up a few Japanese items, e.g., candlesticks. Says she: "They were probably cheaper at Lord & Taylor's than we could have gotten them for in Japan." The Built-in Look. The problem for Author-Editor (Doubleday) Margaret Cousins...
...have no objections to the way in which the author approaches his job. The scholarship of the work is impeccable; the text is a carefully woven fabric of diplomatic cables, memoranda, personal memoirs and previous historical writings. Ullman's selected bibliography includes well over a hundred titles, not to mention manuscripts, papers and unpublished documents. The chapters follow a careful chronological pattern. The only difficulty with the book is that the reader occasionally loses the main thread of events amidst a welter of seemingly unconnected incidents. He feels as if he were viewing a kaleidoscope--at one moment...