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RIVER DIVERSIONS. The Australians are diverting much of a river for irrigation; water from the Snowy River, which empties into the Tasman Sea, is being rerouted to flow through the Snowy Mountains into farmland watering systems. The Soviets are working on a similar project involving the Ob and the Yenisei, which flow north out of Siberia to the Kara Sea. By diverting part of these waters southward, the Soviets will feed them into an irrigation system that could keep marginal wheatlands productive...
...cousin, once a thin, cerebral chemical engineering student at the University of Maine, left school five years ago when he decided to teach himself how to build houses. He has learned well and has also bought farmland and taught himself how to farm. Now he looks as strong and healthy as a bear. My cousin is the best argument I've yet seen for Wing and Cole's assertion that people should teach themselves how to build, and for the larger assertion that people should learn to rely more on their own skills...
...which way the delegation would finally go seemed to lie with its chairman, Clarke Reed. Reed, a wealthy businessman (construction, barges and farmland) who smiles readily, loves parties and delves into philosophy, denies he has any "kingmaker" role in influencing the Mississippi delegation. A political purist who would like to see the two major parties divide along liberal-conservative lines, he switched from the Democratic Party in 1950 to push his conservative beliefs. Reed had professed to favor Reagan, but was thought by some insiders in the delegation to be awaiting an excuse to move to Ford. The selection...
Moreover, the heir to a large fortune usually has an easier time coming up with the cash to pay the estate tax than the person whose inheritance consists of farmland and animals or the building and equipment of a laundry, clothing store or restaurant. Even so, the widely held belief that estate taxes have mightily contributed to the decline of the family farm is difficult to prove: few if any statistics exist to document it. That is not likely to deter politicians of either party from harping on the belief as they pursue the farm vote this year...
...seems to have convinced him that playing the camera lovingly over a tableaux while playing highbrow music on the soundtrack is a substitute for thought and action. Kubrick's sets are at first startling--the lush green beauty of Irish hills and loughs; the crazy-quilt pattern of farmland in the Low Countries; the grounds of an eighteenth-century country house; the glittering interiors of the courts of Central Europe. But the cinematography stays on a travelogue level. Kubrick does nothing to the superb natural scenery to create images; unwilling to create, he simply records...