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...Abbott was whipping up Broadway souffles like On Your Toes, and ballet master George Balanchine was staging On Your Toes' novel Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Mr. A. and Mr. B., as they were known, would be Robbins' mentors. In 1940 he danced in the Balanchine show Keep Off the Grass, and at the end of the decade, he joined Balanchine's New York City Ballet (today he is one of two ballet masters in chief). In 1944 he expanded his ballet Fancy Free into On the Town, which Abbott directed. Betty Comden, the show's coauthor, recalls the young Robbins...
...shirt-sleeves, tending his Herefords. Within 60 hours the temperature fell from 86 degrees F to -13 degrees F, an unheard of plunge of 99 degrees. Schmeidler coped. Two calves were born in the middle of a freezing night. He got them into a draw, pulled some dead grass over their small, steaming bodies and saved them. But last week he looked out over his bare, parched winter- wheat fields and worried. "If we don't get some moisture soon, the March winds will start blowing away some real estate...
...snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help of the Weathermen. The radical political group praised Leary, saying "LSD and grass will help us make a future world where it will be possible to live in peace." Indeed, the title for The Whole Earth Catalog, the how-to manual first published in 1968 for this imminent garden of earthly delights, came to its editor with the help of 100 micrograms...
Montana and wide receiver Jerry Rice put together a fine drive in the game's final minutes. And when the game was over--after Cincinnati quarterback Boomer Esiason's pass fell to the grass--we saw something we don't see often in sports anymore, let alone on the tense city streets. When the gun sounded, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh and Cincinnati Coach Sam Wyche walked off the field...
What is not so well known is that hundreds of grass-roots organizations in Africa are taking action to cope with environmental change. Somalia has launched a vigorous antidesertification drive that includes a ban on cutting firewood. In Burkina Faso villagers have responded to steadily dwindling rainfall by building handmade dams and adapting primitive water-gathering techniques. Even so simple a trick as putting stones along the contour lines of a field to catch rainwater can make the difference between an adequate harvest and no harvest...