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Roses & Red Man. Around the U.S.. nearly 40 million amateur gardeners spend an estimated $4 billion annually on plants, seeds, sod, fertilizer, bug sprays, sprinklers, tools and gadgetry. The biggest men in a big business are Jackson & Perkins, rose growers, and W. Atlee Burpee Co.. seedsmen. Jackson & Perkins expects to sell 11 million rosebushes this year from its beds in California, Arizona and New York. is touting a giant hybrid tea rose. South Seas. Unlike many of the new show-bred roses. South Seas smells good. Said Charles Perkins: "We breed fragrance into our roses...
...From Sod to Sky. Even in Ireland, times and tactics change. After 700 years of battling the English, Irishmen are no longer obsessed with "the Six Green Fields," as the predominantly Protestant counties are still called in Southern Ireland. Eire's government, which has long espoused a diplomatic solution for partition, has outlawed the I.R.A. and even forbids Ireland's press to carry its name. Since 1956 the Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed...
Maybe it is, and maybe it isn't, but in this earnest, dull book, Callaghan proves only that Sam is a sod and the girl is a tedious alky. Chekhov, anyone...
...mountains. Their radioactivity was well confined, and so far there have been no reports of contaminated ground water, but large underground tests could conceivably poison the water supply of an entire state. For relatively small nuclear devices the U.S. is likely to continue underground tests, but the more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that a ten-megaton test would need to be exploded 18 miles below the surface. At this depth the rock...
...chosen to tell a plain tale that succeeds better as work of the imagination than most fiction. He writes out of that typical Irish condition, self-exile -O'Connor lives in Palo Alto, Calif.-but the pipes of nostalgia are muted. Indeed, his chosen adjective for the old sod is not "green" but "mediocre...