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...farm home is a weekend haven of peace and quiet. When he gets home from Chicago on Friday nights and dons his old clothes, Shuman goes out to look over the crops or attack the weeds that infest the vegetable garden behind the house. He grows nearly every fruit and vegetable* in the seed catalogue. Mabel, who can hardly use one-fifth of what he grows, has a surplus problem of her own. She has a big freezer and a cellar room for her preserves, but the bounty from Charlie's garden overflows both...
...rates ($15 a year, roughly equal to the average share of U.S. citizens in the aid tab), this dry and dusty country is rapidly being turned into a gigantic orchard. President Bourguiba has pushed the plan to sink most of $397 million in economic aid since 1958 into fruit and vegetable production...
...Fruit of Humility. Yet despite the tumult and the tremors, India continues to function with a stability rare in Asia. Part of the reason stems from India's diminutive Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri, whose modest manner is the very antithesis of the hubris of Nehru. Tiny and turkey-necked, shy as a schoolboy in his rumpled dhoti and brown loafers, Shastri both matches the diminished stature of India and reflects its inchoate strength. By merely surviving for 14 months in a situation that many thought might end in anarchy, Shastri has shown that India has a chance...
...Peyton Place), were married-or about to be. All anybody knew for sure, as the Southern Breeze lay at anchor off colorful Cape Cod that afternoon, was that among the fresh foodstuffs taken aboard at Hyannisport were several boxes of a body-building breakfast cereal called Fruit Loops...
Mixed Harvest. The scraps of paper planted by Gibran have borne bountiful fruit: nearly $1,000,000 in royalties to date, some $100,000 more every year. Gibran, who coveted both fame and riches, died too soon to reap most of this harvest. His will left everything to the place of his birth, Bsherri. But except for Gibran's body, which was sent home to be entombed in the monastery of Mar Markis, Bsherri has little to show...