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...General's Gratitude. Grain paid the bills for Collector Fribourg's art. Born in Belgium, he lived in Paris until the Nazis were at the gates, finally settled in Manhattan. There his family's century-old grain business had developed into the U.S.-based Continental Grain Co. with dealings all over the world. When World War II was over, Fribourg managed to bring his Paris collection across the Atlantic intact; the German general who occupied his house had evidently become so fond of the Fribourgs' chef's cooking that in gratitude he gave the collection...
...billion for agriculture out of the budget. I plan to remodel the house this year with the money I get for not growing grain. Last yesx I got a new car. As long as the taxpayer is too lazy to write his representatives and complain, I will continue to take advantage...
...that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...
...picture is snapped, a pair of rollers in the camera breaks a pod of thick, alkaline liquid and spreads it evenly over the film. The liquid penetrates quickly through the layers, waking the linked molecules to active chemical life. They start moving, and most of them eventually touch a grain of silver halide in the nearest light-sensitive layer. If that grain has been exposed to light, it is ready for action. It grabs the developer end of the molecule, holds it tight, and uses it to turn the silver halide into metallic silver. This develops the images...
Mexico's bestselling novel of all time is, ironically, a bitter attack on the most sacred event in Mexican history: the 1910 Revolution. It takes an exceptional writer to go against his native grain and still be popular. But Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs with such unsparing honesty that he was forgiven his iconoclasm. Few novels have so fiercely proclaimed that war, revolution included, is hell...