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...Paper-thin strips of polyethylene plastic stretch across the fields, warming the soil, conserving water, choking out weeds, protecting the land against the erosion of wind and rain. And if the coddled cotton crop that is even now poking tentatively into view grows close to its rich promise, its payoff may be the beginning of an agricultural revolution...
...Belgium, Italy, Greece, The Netherlands, Turkey, West Germany-were immediately receptive to Merchant's proposal. West Germany expressed the warmest interest; the British looked on the scheme with "mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan...
...rich Texan got mad at her husband, told the IRS that he had been finagling on his tax returns. As an informer, she got a $50,000 payment -a portion of the extra tax the Government collected. Understandably, she did not want to tell her spouse about the payoff, so she failed to report it on their joint income return. The husband found out all about it when the IRS jumped on her for tax evasion...
...Havemann invested $96 in an array of 48 likely combinations, and kissed his money goodbye. But it was Ernie Havemann day at Caliente. One of his combinations contained five winners. No one else at Caliente had done as well, and Havemann's handicapping earned him a $61,908 payoff...
...Power Co., Pernambuco Tramways and Power Co. In both cases, the companies received little or no payment, while the companies' legal protests ground their way through Brazil's agonizingly slow courts-years and perhaps decades away from firm settlement. Last week, suddenly, both companies were near a payoff...