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Crane declares that he wants to end his years on a patch of Indiana land he owns. But first he has to get power if he is to be able to walk away from it in style. One way or another, he will go back to the farm...
...inexhaustible and truly invincible." The origins of the quarrel lie in Albania's hostility to China's policy of rapprochement with the U.S. and the Third World and to Peking's warming relations with Albania's longtime enemy, Yugoslavia. Instead of attempting to patch up the quarrel, Peking apparently decided it was time to end the Albanian drain on China's resources-more than $4 billion since 1954. According to the official Chinese news agency, Peking had been showering grain, steel, tractors and trucks on the ungrateful Albanians when China could not spare them...
Diplomatic observers were not much more hopeful about the situation. "Even if the Syrians and the Christians patch something together," said a Western diplomat in Beirut, "it will hold for only a few weeks or a month. The state will fall back into conditions that produce more fighting. The guns talk here. Nothing else." President Elias Sarkis, who has been frustrated over his inability to prevent the fratricidal fighting, for a while threatened to resign. But he bowed to U.S. pressure to stay on in order to stave off what would almost certainly be, in his absence, total anarchy...
...yard of my family's home in Greenfield, Iowa, this summer is an extraordinary clarifier. Down the line of porches the past echoes. There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft...
...what is important. Soccer is not for theorists, or for FIFA, or for military juntas seeking wistfully to appear respectable. It is not for journalists, certainly, and perhaps it is not even for wondrously skilled professional players. Soccer's lovely simplicity started with children- a ball, a patch of ground, a few kids - and that is where its center remains...