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...Unrepentant, Hud gives the nephew a parting shot of philosophy: "The world is so full of crap a man is going to get it sooner or later, whether he is careful or not." Then Hud swaggers into the empty house, opens a can of beer, and slams down the shade on the kitchen door against the sunlight of the late afternoon...
Blossoming chestnuts cast their shade over the bookstalls along the Seine, traffic wheeled insanely around the Place de 1'Etoile and the first tourists with their cameras sank contentedly last week into chairs at sidewalk cafes...
...wheat crop and meat production-the country's two main exports-finished disappointingly low, and the nation's balance-of-payments deficit soared to $320 million. Argentina's total gold and foreign exchange reserves have also dropped from $351 million to $185 million-only a shade more than those of Morocco. The military men who half-run Argentina behind a civilian facade have promised elections to return the country to constitutional rule, but are as hesitant to step aside as they were once eager to step in. Their problem is still the same as when they deposed...
...horse has won more than $500,000 in his 14-race career, and has never finished worse than third. The conditions of the Preakness are more favorable to Never Bend than the Derby, in which he ran second. Never Bend is a front-runner and the Preakness is a shade shorter than the Derby. Further more, No Robbery, the horse whose stout pressure helped tire Never Bend after he had run the first six furlongs of the Derby in a blistering 1:10, is out of the Preakness with an injury...
...kill the beetles that carry its deadly fungus from tree to tree. And if dead or dying trees are burned, the beetles have fewer places to breed. But still the plague spreads, even though many Middle Western cities, where elms are the most common and sometimes the only shade trees, have demonstrated that the two-part program works well. Chicago, which destroyed diseased trees and sprayed too, lost only 0.7% of its elms last year; Champaign-Urbana and Bloomington, where no systematic effort was made, lost 95% of their elms...