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Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through the knee-high wheat. In the No. 1 wheat state of the world's greatest wheat-producing nation, it was harvest time...
...year-old tractor that pulls the bigger combine. Frank Anderson cranked the combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr of kernels pouring into the combines' bins...
Princess Elizabeth was to get her first honorary degree next week. The University of London decided the proper thing would be a Bachelor of Music. Meanwhile, a tartan sash over her white gown, she did all right in the dance department, with a fine Highland reel at the Royal Canadian Ball...
...Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum Park Commissioner, seized the occasion of the National Institute of Social Sciences' annual dinner to reel off impacted phrases until the gunpowder ran out the heels of his boots-his favorite hobby. "I have learned not to run up a high temperature and blood pressure," said Speaker Moses, "over the intolerant off-scourings of minds inflamed by revolutionaries . . . the wisecracks of sophisticates who are the eunuchs of our metropolitan seraglio, the lofty disdain of ivory-tower planners, the bitter, irresponsible mouthings of the radical press, the cheese spread of radio commentators...