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...right to use Congress's cow-and-calf emblem on the ballot-a crucial issue in a nation with 64% illiteracy. Now, in a plague-on-both-your-houses mood, a significant number of Congress Party regulars may cast their votes for Janata's man-with-a-plow emblem-a symbol for millions of the Desai government's restoration of civil rights in India...
...Western farmers' main complaint: the 1902 act is archaic because modern mechanized farming techniques have made it impossible for anyone to earn a living on a 160-acre tract. Moreover, Imperial Valley landowners point out, of the 450,000 Imperial acres under the plow, only 20,000 belong to corporate farms; the rest of the land is farmed by families...
After the press conference, Van Vleck returned home to catch his breath and plow through the growing mountain of telegrams...
...studios have joined the space race as well. Fox hopes to plow some of its Star Wars profits into Alien, the tale of an otherworldly creature who takes to mugging U.S. spacemen. American International Pictures plans a spacey adventure titled The Incredible Melting Man, in which a returning astronaut poses some sticky problems for the p.r. boys at NASA. The poor fellow has to gulp down gallons of blood in order to keep from liquefying. Universal Pictures plans to remake The Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will...
Henry recognizes that many Evangelicals may be too busy with "soul winning" to plow through his work. Nonetheless, "if the Evangelical movement settles merely for popular appeals and does not sink its roots in theology, it will be in serious trouble in another generation." To help provide these roots, he hopes to finish his third volume next year and the final...