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...appropriate than the ancients knew. Like the infant whose birth they symbolize, stars, by living and dying, enable whole new worlds to be born. Conceived in the frigid darkness of space, stars during their lives produce the elements that make life possible and sustain it. When they die, they sow these substances like seeds across the heavens. The elements eventually become part of new stars and planets. Thus in death there is rebirth...
Earl Butz as Secretary of Agriculture should have known better than anyone else that you reap what you sow...
...CHINA'S FRIENDS. There are so-called friends, self-styled friends of the Chinese people . . . with "honey on their lips and murder in their hearts." They are the imperialists . . . Stalin is the true friend of the cause of liberation of the Chinese people. No attempt to sow dissension, no lies and calumnies, can affect the Chinese people's wholehearted love and respect for Stalin and our genuine respect for the Soviet Union...
Nudging Nature. On another level, many Americans were working shorter hours and looking for something new and personally satisfying to do in their leisure hours. Astonishing numbers of them seemed to be finding it in an almost atavistic yearning to grub in the dirt, sow seeds, nudge nature with fertilizer, watch wondrous things grow, then literally taste the fruits-and vegetables-of their loving labors at their own tables. Home gardening of all kinds, but most especially for eating, is booming in the U.S. The growing zest for growing things got its biggest boost in 1974 from the recession, climbing...
...Senate committee wearing a cloth mask to preserve a new identity adopted for self-protection, an informer once known as Gary Rowe Jr. testified that he had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan for the FBI in the early 1960s. He said he was told to do everything possible to sow dissension within the Klan. Rowe said of Klan families: "I was told to sleep with as many wives as I could, to break up marriages." (He slept with some.) He claimed that he warned the FBI that the Klan planned to attack Freedom Riders in Birmingham...