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...Quixotically, Buddy offers his grandfather, who tends a poor garden in his backyard, any plot he wants. But the old man refuses. He is fond of Buddy, but he is well on to him. Beautiful as it is, the land was badly got, and so for him will remain fallow...
When Frank Sinatra, 56, retired his voice from public performance in 1971, he said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation's singing idol." It was time to begin his comeback career. Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. Last week, after a standing ovation from...
After lying fallow while the rest of the college football world rages forward, the Ivy League teams move into action this weekend. And while most of the Ivy openers are traditionally considered tune-ups for the regular season, this year, things could be different. As many as four of the eight teams in the Ivies could come up on the short end this weekend...
Miraculous Capacity. Immediately, the nation can-and will-give production a big lift by putting idle cropland back into use. During the past dozen years, an average of 60 million acres of farm land, out of a total of 330 million, has been kept fallow by the operations of the price-support program. Roughly 40 million acres were released for output in time for this year's planting season. Last month President Nixon signed into law a new policy that eliminates acreage controls altogether and permits a farmer to sell his crop for whatever the market will bring...
...which is currently covered by sterile ash-grey dirt, beer cans, auto parts, and other debris. The area has the appearance of being recently bombed out. The suggestion, seriously presented to the City council two months ago, that "victory gardens" be planted on the site while the land lies fallow, seems less than ludicrous...