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...cameras presented by Eastman Kodak, asked thousands of questions. Eagerly they pounced on every new idea or machine for farming. They talked and acted like alchemists expecting to find at almost any moment the secret formula for Iowa's golden bounty, for the fat grain bins and seven-foot stands of corn, for the prosperous farms and happy people. They could not believe that most Iowa farmers work their quarter sections (160 acres) by and for themselves...
...free world's cobalt (essential for jet aircraft engines), 70% of the industrial diamonds. One third the size of the U.S., it is a hot, humid, fecund basin drained by a river system second only to the Amazon in volume. In the east lies Ruanda-Urundi, where the seven-foot Watussi live; in the south lies Katanga, the metalliferous wonderland that fronts on Rhodesia and is the site of Shinkolobwe, the world's richest uranium mine. Between is the timeless jungle (48% of the Congo is forested), with beetles the size of pigeons, dwarf antelope no bigger than...
Climbing on a series of ladders form the bell tower, 52-year-old Young vainly attempted to lift off the seven-foot top piece of the steeple yesterday for regliding...
...reconquer the U.S. by blowing up its sewage systems ("A devastating new weapon. Smell."), a Lesbian who drinks milk from a baby bottle, a homosexual, a Harvard graduate who scouts the society pages for the names of new brides and phones them from pay booths at 4 a.m., a seven-foot Santa Claus who tampers with little girls. Author Bourjaily (whose first novel, The End of My Life, was hailed by some critics for its "lyric emotion") evidently has some method behind all this distasteful madness: he tries to show that the times are out of joint...
Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...