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...traditional way to improve such soil is to add large amounts of manure or to plow under many crops of green stuff. When this organic material decays, a small part of it turns into natural gums called "polyuronides," which bind the soil particles together into the much-desired crumbs. But reforming a problem soil in this way is expensive and the polyuronides are quickly destroyed by soil bacteria...
Among the frisky young colts in the U.S. literary stable, 25-year-old Novelist Frederick Buechner has many of the marks of a writing thoroughbred. His style stems from Henry James, his imagination makes such plodding documentarians as Norman Mailer and James Jones look like plow horses. Critical railbirds who clocked him on his first novel, A Long Day's Dying, found that he ran a sharp race with a light package: the havoc of a love affair between a middle-aged woman and her son's English instructor...
...direction, appreciated by Italians: his efforts to get the terms of the Italian peace treaty relaxed. An indefatigable salesman for the U.S., Dunn is always on hand to dedicate a new bridge built by ECA funds, to present a shipload of toys from the American Legion, or a snow plow from the citizens of Jersey City to an Alpine village...
...cool, a call came in from the nearby 1st Marine Division. The Reds were directing mortar fire on the leathernecks from bunkers protected by 15 feet of earth and logs-too thick for the marines' artillery to penetrate. The Los Angeles had the answer: armor-piercing shells that plow through the bunkers, explode inside. From the loudspeaker above Lieut. Marksheffel's head came the metallic voice of the Marine spotter ashore: "Come left 200 yards . . ." Three more rounds. Again the metallic voice: "Well done. Direct hit on mortar position. End of mission...
...times that of Chicago. In the provinces, landlords continued to take 70% of the crops for themselves, getting interest of 100% to 200% on loans to tenants who were already so deeply in debt that their grandsons would not own enough land to live on or a carabao to plow...