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...refreshments, offered by an armada of boats throughout the season. Humpbacks are surprisingly agile for their size (the average adult is longer than 13 m and weighs about 30 tons), so expect to see lots of blowing, tail slapping and breaching. Australia's cuddly koalas and kangaroos usually hog the tourist limelight, but this is one time of the year when native wildlife just can't compete. For more information, visit herveybaytourism.com.au...
...impersonators, to participate in an Elvis trivia contest and to pay homage. Crowds also flock to the Wild and Wacky Raft Race in Miami, the bathtub race in San Diego and the equally exciting Hermit Crab Races in Ocean City, N.J. In Illinois' state fair there is both a hog-calling and a husband-calling contest, in which a woman calls for her husband, who has been calling hogs. First prize was taken by Kathy Lingren of Beason, whose winning cry was "Kenneeeee, the sows are in heat, and I can't get the boar out of the mudhole...
...Shaoqi had realized the enormity of the miscalculation and set about correcting it. At a tense party plenum that Mao did not attend (so that Liu, Deng and others could gainleader ship experience prior to the Chairman's death), they announced measures reinstating private farming plots, peripheral industries like hog raising and more extensive free markets. In industry, managers and technicians were to take over from party bureaucrats. On a limited scale these programs foreshadowed Deng's second revolution. Mao was furious when he learned of the change in direction, demanding coldly, "Which emperor decided this...
Another departing Washington official is Agriculture Secretary John Block, who announced that he would leave office in mid-February. One of just four of Ronald Reagan's original Cabinet appointees still on the job, Block, 50, is a likable West Pointer and Illinois hog farmer who had the misfortune of serving during the worst years for U.S. farming since the Depression. Farm exports dropped nearly 30% and land values eroded, bringing down debt-laden farmers and their creditors. Block leaves with a victory: the 1985 farm bill. While extending the farm subsidies the Administration wanted...
Owney Morrison is descended from a long line of drinkers. He likes beer for breakfast and whiskey and beer chasers at lunch. "Just one" after work frequently turns into one too many. Sometimes Owney sleeps it off overnight in the hog house, the dressing room at the construction site. This does not please his wife Dolores, who wants to study medicine but is stuck at home with a baby. Dolores is a latter-day stereotype and one that Breslin is less sure of than he is of the guys and dolls along Queens Boulevard. Still, she is vital and feisty...