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...remembers with exquisite intensity a deserted beach, a lover's touch, "the silence of the sky in my eyes." He gives a bluff account of a pond in the nearby park, some sniggering adolescents, the excrement of ducks. Dame Peggy makes her lines into the soliloquy of a Molly Bloom. Both casts have to make the most of the unspoken word, but the best-modulated pauses of all are hers...
...twigs and leaves is a delicate three-dimensional nude, her legs spread provocatively, her left hand holding aloft a glowing amber lamp, her head obscured save for one golden curl that flutters onto her shoulder. Beyond is a landscape in full autumn splendor, a small pond, a shimmering waterfall...
...only last year at 94. Mrs. Burger insisted that all the children attend Methodist Sunday school. The family moved in and around St. Paul; for a time they had a 20-acre farm, raising tomatoes to supplement the meager family income. Burger and his brothers would splash in the pond of a hot summer's day, or pick ripe tomatoes and wolf them down after licking the skin so that the salt would stick...
Switching to catfish makes sound financial sense. The fish require less care than crops and bring their growers a fatter price per pound (400 to 500 live weight) than beef, pork or poultry. One of the first to discover the market was Edgar Farmer, 57, who stocked a pond ten years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like...
Rising Demand. The fish farmers get a good deal of aid from Washington, where pond-raised catfish are regarded as one answer to a rising U.S. demand for all types of fish products. The Agriculture Department's Soil Conservation Service, for example, offers free technical advice on the construction of ponds for catfish farming or flood-control purposes...