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...Remember that time is money," Benjamin Franklin wrote in his Advice to a Young Tradesman in 1748. "Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on ... He that kills a breeding sow destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation...
...historic Apollo-Soyuz handshake in space constitutes a dramatic repudiation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's unmistakable efforts to sow hatred in the hearts of Americans. In a Rasputin-like manner, he unmasked himself when he implied that America should have fought against the Russians instead of with them against the Nazis...
...Congo (now Zaire) in 1963 and Ghana in 1966. In Mexico, authorities uncovered a KGB-sponsored guerrilla group in 1971. Just last week officials in Belgrade disclosed an unsuccessful Soviet attempt to set up a pro-Moscow underground party in Yugoslavia. Moreover, the KGB's Disinformation Department tries to sow suspicion abroad by circulating false rumors and forged documents. A case in point: the KGB campaign now going on to convince Indians that American exchange scholars and Peace Corps volunteers are actually CIA agents...
...Nixon seems more and more like a sow's ear that is trying very hard to look like a silk purse and not doing too well...
...Pusey Library will have a liberal supply of shrubbery on its non-plaza rooftop, trees nearby where soil is deeper, and smaller plants ranged around the windows and light wells. One can only hope that the Yard's planners will resist the temptation to sow an "ever-green belt" of shrubs across the Yard. The introduction of an element of this scale has already proven to be one element too many--the "accent" which destroys the balance and integrity of a serene environment...