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More from Less. Khrushchev learned his lesson from the huge U.S. fertilizer industry, which now produces 30 million tons of fertilizer a year-nearly twice as much as Russia-and is one of the principal reasons why U.S. farmers are able to coax the world's fattest crops from their land. U.S.-produced fertilizer-now almost completely chemical-is sprinkled on the earth by hand from bulky bags, sprayed on from lumbering field machines, dusted from low-flying planes, even pumped into irrigation streams. By pouring on five times as much fertilizer as they did 30 years ago, mechanized...
...bearing the lion-and-unicorn crest have long been coveted in official Washington, and Sylvia ("Cissie") Ormsby Gore can have anybody she wants to dinner. In tact, she could probably have everybody, for the massive British embassy is among the world's largest and gets one ot the fattest entertainment-and-housekeeping allowances anywhere ($94,680). Sir David knows the President from the days when Joseph Kennedy was Ambassador to London, sails with him on the Honey Fitz and is friendly with most of the Administration's other key people. Cissie prefers having twelve for dinner "conversationally...
...thing the officials forgot to mention was that included among the 1202 were some 70-odd football players with the hardest noses, fattest calves, roundest necks, and heaviest frames on the lightest feet of any athletes ever to set foot in the Yard...
...Times Magazine racked up $13 million in advertising last year, despite its costly, strike-born blackout, and accounted for more than 10% of the newspaper's total ad revenues. When the 15-week newspaper strike ended in April, the magazine returned with a robust, 200-page issue, fattest in its history. Department-store buyers, fabric makers and dress manufacturers all over the country read it avidly for the ads that tip them off to what's hot in the fashion capital of the U.S. Largely because of this clientele, the Times's Sunday circulation outside New York...
...Hotel Mont Blanc, Charlton Heston, splendid in the dress blues of a U.S. marine. Prince Tuan furiously departs, taking with him a troupe of Boxer sword dancers who had terrified the guests with their choreographic snickersnee until Heston got into the act and threatened to slice the fattest of the group into Boxer shorts. Next morning the German ambassador gets a sword right in the middle of the international compound, and Samuel Bronston's spectacularized version of the Boxer Rebellion is under...