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...A.G.A., which represents 33 of the nation's 120 interstate pipeline companies as well as 300 local gas firms, were active, of course. But so were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaking for 70,000 member businesses, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which includes 118 farm and marketing co-ops and 3.5 million farmers. These groups had one overriding concern: they did not want a repetition of last winter's drastic shortage of natural...
...Thomas Paine continues to work for the Revolution after putting out his pamphlet Common Sense, and he dies friendless after he goes on to criticize the new government his efforts have helped to establish. The American (1946) is a fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm boy who became governor of his state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start out poor, and all have...
...pornographer "interested in making money. He defended his right to publish, however, saying "freedom is only meaningful if it's offensive." He added he started Hustler as a magazine responsive to readers' desires and "to deal with sex the way I knew about it growing up on the farm...
...exemption was the reason," he says. For the past five years, he and his wife M.W. (for Mary Wilson) have lived in a 25-room Queen Anne mansion set in 200 secluded acres in County Westmeath. Except for doing some outdoor work to keep fit, Donleavy avoids farm chores and writes for a steady five hours a day. He behaves, he says, "like a gentleman writer instead of a drudge. Being a drudge is quite damaging." Although he entertains frequently, Donleavy prefers isolation. "I'm always on the verge of securing some land for a cemetery from the local...
...roisterous youth, Delaney was famed for pub crawls with Brendan Behan and for having been expelled from Dublin's National College of Art ("Inspiration didn't automatically come to me between 9 and 5"). Today in his Dublin studio and on his stony ocean-front farm in County Galway, Delaney fashions sculptures from scrap bronze that he has melted down. "In the long run," he says, "the public will benefit if the artist's output is greater." As a gesture of appreciation, he is teaching young Irish sculptors how to cast their work...