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...skeptical about synfuels. Says Noble: "I have come to run a very hard-nosed, responsible operation that will require a lot from the private sector. I am not going to shoot the mule that has drawn the wagon, but I'm not going to spread a lot of hay in every direction...
...gently rolling land of Adair County, which helped nurture the great agriculturists of the Wallace family (Henry A. was Secretary of Agriculture for F.D.R.), some of the farmers already have had three cuttings of hay, and they may get a fourth. Two cuttings used to be considered profligate abundance. While the Soviets wage a losing war against hot summer winds, thin soil and a crippling social system-and while their Polish subjects line up at the doors of half-empty food markets-the U.S. in its summer idyll barely notices its own miracle of weather, machines and people that makes...
...cult of the expert, checked solely by conscience--if, indeed, by that--and not by politics, spread far beyond the borders of New York. Though Progressivism made the most political hay of numerical efficiency, the obsession did not die with the movement. Robert McNamara's body counts, and indeed the entire Vietnam experience in this country, probably did more than anything to prove the futility of excessive reliance on the numbers--on the experts. Robert Moses, Doctor Moses, as he liked to be called, had all the numbers, all the plans; the political mud was never slung...
...wife, Nora, are witty, urbane detectives who showed how much the sensibilities of the country had grown since Hammett first started. Nick Charles would rather go to a party than investigate--and both he and Nora would rather have had a roll in the hay (not always with each other) than a knock on the head. The Charles were made into movies and a radio series. Hammett revelled in his creation. Mickey Spillane was still doing hard-boiled stuff, of course but Hammett was again ahead of the pack...
From 6 in the morning until midnight, he attended to the family businesses -plate glass, real estate, banking. Simultaneously, he threw himself into philanthropy, rehabilitating New York's urchins with what his friend John Hay, later Secretary of State, described as "maniacal benevolence...