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...Matter of Tinkering. It was generally agreed, that the conference would produce no definitive, radical or inspiring solution. It seemed likely that a series of short-range adjustments, like a shovelful of gravel under a skidding wheel, might help pull Britain out of the immediate financial mudhole in which she was floundering. There would be more mudholes ahead; to meet them, the conference might set up a long-range approach through a permanent Anglo-American staff for economic cooperation...
Stucco on the Lawn. Called Kilometer 47 (because of its distance from Rio), the school spreads over 4,900 acres straddling the road to São Paulo. Its main buildings (yellowish stucco and red tile roofs) are set on spacious lawns landscaped with pools, palms and gravel driveways...
...grey Ford whipped along the back-country gravel roads, stirring up a trail of dust. Braking to a stop alongside a flat field, the car's slight and sunburned driver sighted down mile-long rows of tiny green shoots, planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful?" grinned Lester Pfister. He raced on to another field, wiggled his wiry 126 lbs. through a barbed-wire fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when...
...jazz trumpeters, went back home for a brief reign as King of the Zulus at New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Buttoned into an outlandish red velvet tunic, and brandishing a silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne. By the time Satch had clambered...
...dollars annually putting little stick and wire fences around its walks. It recently replaced the plain glass in Hastings Hall mail boxes with new, beveled glass. Many students hesitate to contribute money for such silly projects when the school is apparently too cheap to buy a load of gravel for a mired-in parking lot used every day by the very students asked to contribute...