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...million farmers who "do not now and cannot in the fu ture be expected to operate successful commercial farms." In any case, while the number of farms and of people living on farms in the U.S. has already declined by one third since 1955, surpluses continue to pile...
...Dear old Sandringham," murmured King George V, "the place I love better than anywhere else in the world." Three generations of British royalty felt the same way about the vast, 350-room pile in the flat fields of Norfolk-never mind its drafty inefficiency. Then along came modern-minded Prince Philip, with inventories for the kitchen, time and motion studies for the help and a peck of new gadgets. Washstands were replaced by hot and cold running water, open fires with central heating. Now the work load is so low that six of Sandringham's eleven 56?-per-hour...
Adolescent Fantasy. Joe Buck is a sheep. Son and grandson of prostitutes, he loses his mother when he is seven and is fetched up by "Gramaw." At 17, he meets a girl named Chalkline Annie and makes the scene on a pile of old carpets in the storeroom of the neighborhood movie house. After that, "the persons, female and male alike, who were so eager to avail themselves of his splendid body never appeared to notice that it was inhabited by Joe Buck...
...could easy get out of it." Now and then the cowpoke got to a big city. San Francisco was his favorite. In the funniest passage in the book, McCauley describes how a country boy behaved in one of the elegant restaurants there. "I saw I had overjumped my pile but I looked wise, told the waiter to bring me a steak about the size of a mule's lip from the ear down and to put in a few more things that would fill up, like fried eggs. I did the best I could to get on the outside...
...days after the Stravers left on vacation, another family moved into their house, drove about in their car and frolicked on the front lawn with the pets. Meanwhile, residents in Clearwater, Fla., were equally startled. Shortly after they saw Mrs. Jess Thacker (a widow) and her three children pile into her car with suitcases, another family arrived and made themselves at home...