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...getting 25 state institutions to provide excess land, plowing, water and fertilizer for would-be sod-busters. In Milwaukee, county and city governments are leasing 2,500 plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed to reduce moisture loss and weed growth by mounding the soil...
...F.D.R. concurred. Joe McCarthy kicked him in the groin. Harry Truman ranked him among his top s.o.b.s. In fact, Columnist Drew Pearson was often misinformed and vindictive in the pursuit of his foes, but he was never intentionally mendacious. A courtly Quaker gentleman, he raked muck with a silver hoe-he married money and made $7,000 a week in his heyday-and set a pattern of investigative reporting and permanently emboldened American journalism...
...large, hemispherical earthen oven, where the farmer's wife baked bread. A pile of freshly-cut eucalyptus wood lay next to the oven. The man, very small and with a rough wizened face, had walked up to within a few yards of me and stopped, his wooden hoe in hand. I indicated the peanuts in my hand. He broke into a broad smile, and pointed with his free hand to his mouth. He had no teeth. What could I do in such a situation? I nodded slightly, muttered "Le siento," I'm sorry, and moved...
...fiery visitor is called Kohoutek (after its discoverer, Czech Astronomer Luboš Kohoutek- pronounced Loo-bosh Ko-hoe-tek); it promises to rival and perhaps surpass in brightness Halley's comet, which last appeared in 1910 and will not be seen again until 1986. By the time Kohoutek emerges from its passage behind the sun early in January, its tail should be full grown, a glittering streamer extending across as much as a sixth of the evening sky. There is some chance that Kohoutek will not live up to all its billing - comets are notoriously unpredictable. Some split into...
...COLYER CRUM, Williston Professor of Investment Management (Business School). "An institutional investment manager or endowment manager who chooses not to get involved at this point in time is going to have a tough row to hoe," Crum told an economic conference three years ago. "I don't think the students are going to let him off the hook...increasingly you are going to have to vote against the managers...