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...open-air rally at the new Siberian iron-mining town of Rudny, several times spoke over local radio stations, was everywhere interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River was "blocked," "breached" or "dammed." Finally, he would dictate the approved version over...
...last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting of the heads of government in the near future, we shall wait until the time is ripe...
...when the company's sales were slipping from a record $394 million in 1956 to $378 million. He began buying up stock, asked to get on the Crane board, but was turned down. As Crane sales dropped to $336 million in 1958, Evans decided that the time was ripe to move, called in Proxy-Battler Alfons Landa, boss of Penn-Texas Corp., to help...
...India's biggest problems in creating more food is the population of 203 million cattle, most of which are regarded with religious reverence by Hindus. The sacred cows wander freely through Indian fields eating as they please, proliferating without restraint, dying at a ripe old age (in many Indian states it is illegal to kill a cow). Since they may not be eaten as food, they contribute little to the Indian food supply, of which they consume a great deal. If they cannot be killed, they might be sterilized, the Ford experts suggest...
Most of the converts were Hakkas, members of an outsider ethnic group to which Hung himself belonged. Social scientists might call them havenots; Toynbee would call them an internal proletariat. What with famine poverty, and the corruption of the Manchus, the Hakkas were ripe for revolt...