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...agents for Mr. Henry Self, owner of the 2000 acre Posey Mound Plantation, explained to me that the families had been kicked off because "they didn't want to work. They seemed to be of the opinion that they could run the place." He pointed out that families had been leaving the plantation for years. In the early 1940's it had supported 50 families. Now 12 tractors worked the fields. Fewer than 15 families remained, many out of the charity of Mr. Self...
Meet Jerry Koosman, 24. "I haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic," says Koosman, a slightly flaky 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. farmboy from Appleton, Minn. (pop. 3,000), who had seen only two major-league games before he first took the mound for the Mets, and whose performance so far this spring is startling even to his manager. "I wish I could take credit for him," said a dazed Gil Hodges, after Koosman posted a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros last week...
...mock defense of the ad game, Welles proposes that "the main product in the 20th century is waste" and predicts that in 200 years the world will be standing on a huge mound of garbage. Possibly. And close to the bottom will be this story of a Fake's Progress that is as false as an ?8 note...
...mound staff, thought to be the weakest part of the team at the season's start, has turned out remarkably strong. Led by J.C. Nickens, Phil Collins, and Curt Tucker, the hurlers have allowed only 20 hits. Their one rocky performance came against Exeter, which bowed...
...until the early 1800s did Dutch colonialists examine this strange mound and discover the temple. They did little except to add a teahouse to what appeared to be the main stupa of the complex. Then in 1907, a Dutch military engineer named T. Van Erp began digging out the ancient ruins. Van Erp laid bare the magnificent carvings and in four years reconstructed Borobudur in its entirety. Only the floors were new. The rest was all there to be put back into place, including some 3,000 pieces of statuary, 432 balustrade niches and 72 latticed stupas, each with...