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...Czechs' own railroads and river fleets were antiquated. Increased costs forced planners to forgo reinvestment and research. The demand for factory labor trimmed the country's farm population from 3,300,000 to 1,300,000, often left the farms to be run by women, and helped sow the seeds for chronic crop shortages...
...merchant builders, who buy land by the tract and sow it with houses, architecture is usually something to do without. Architects, they feel, are too prone to run up costs with perfectionists' details, and too preoccupied with niceties that are wasted on development customers, who don't care much what a house looks like so long as there are plenty of appliances in the kitchen...
...that, MacArthur was reflecting an idea that was publicly discussed as early as 1951. Tennessee's Democratic Sen ator Albert Gore, then a Congressman and member of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, had read a study of radiological warfare, issued a statement suggesting that the U.S. could sow a sanitized zone of radioactive material across the Korean neck. Says he today: "It was thoroughly panned by scientific editorial writers." In any event, explains University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez, MacArthur was in error, since the half-life of radioactive cobalt is only 5.25 years, and the material could...
Later, Johnson came across a sow with half a dozen tiny piglets. He stopped and told photographers he would pose for pictures with a pig "if you can catch one." They started chasing the little pigs, and just as Country Boy Johnson had known all along, the angry sow charged the frightened photographers. While the city slickers fell all over themselves eluding the sow, Johnson guffawed exuberantly, honked his cow horn repeatedly and roared, "Whooeee...
...tidewater town, The Wapshot Chronicle is essentially a simple drama of destinies and moralities. Father Leander Wapshot's wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses...