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...Hagars were only following a tradition that goes back even beyond Goethe, who argued: "No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country." Sun Shadow West residents had the Hagars hauled into court for violating a town law forbidding the presence of "noxious weeds," only to have a judge rule that the Hagars could let it all grow out. Local antiweed ordinances have also been struck down in other communities, giving lawn traditionalists a thorny problem...
BRITAIN remains a problem child, beset by just about every possible economic ill: falling productivity, high inflation (15.1% in 1976), a dismally low growth rate (1.5% predicted for 1977), and a currency that is only a shadow of its former self. Still, Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan and his predecessor Harold Wilson have managed to pull the country out of even graver conditions, and the increasing flow of North Sea oil may yet rescue Britain from its present economic poorhouse...
...Godfather epics in that statement. Joan Baez' rendition of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" usually elicits a few catcalls from the rowdies who always show up for a showing of Woodstock, but the film hasn't another rough spot in it. And the concluding ten minutes prove byond any remaining shadow of a doubt that Hendrix does indeed live...
...past it. The polished assurance of Noland's style, its clear-cut shifts of format and structure succeeding one another like the terms of a syllogism, combined with the haughty, messianic tone of its supporting criticism to present a most intimidating façade. Who, under that shadow, could call a stripe a stripe...
...battling the parasitic disease with the few available drugs, usually arsenic compounds. At the same time, local and international agencies have waged campaigns to eradicate tsetse flies, the bloodsucking insects that transmit the ailment to domestic cattle and man. Neither approach has been particularly successful. Trypanosomiasis still casts its shadow over 35 million people who live in the heart of tropical Africa, the tsetse fly's breeding ground, making huge areas all but uninhabitable...