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Provincialism is, of course, an attitude-and attitudes are relative. A man can be provincial in the biggest city or cosmopolitan in the smallest. But provincialism in the old pejorative sense-blindness and insensitivity to all beyond a narrow purview-is practically disappearing before the realities of modern U.S. life. It is hard to be narrow when TV shows yesterday's battles in Viet Nam, when one out of five Americans moves each year, when the small-towner can often afford the same cars for his garage or the same clothes for his wife (Norells or Balenciagas...
Another of the additions this year is meat. The smallest quantity sold is 30 lbs. of stewing beef, but prices are 30% to 40% below normal. Thus the customer has a powerful incentive to buy a freezer-which Neckermann supplies for $100 in cash or $4.50 a month...
...more than one hour will go out of his mind. When they're together, they're a catastrophe." The trouble is, sighed Mamá, they're always together. "Each is different," she mused. "Mario is the strongest. Otto gets mad easy. Juan José is the smallest, but he's a fighter." Juan José will soon have one more sibling to squabble with. Another Prieto-the eighth, all told-is due in March...
...most-used unit to measure sound is the decibel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell, and defined as the smallest difference in loudness that the human ear can detect...
...have gone so far as to plant, fertilize and spray their crops entirely from planes. A single U.S. farm worker now feeds 37 people, nearly twice as many as he did only a decade ago. And despite rising prices, U.S. consumers get off with spending the world's smallest share of their aftertax income for food: 19% (v. 29% in Britain, 45% in Italy, 80% in India...