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...Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...Hatful of Rain. The love of Eva Marie Saint pitted against the addiction of her screen husband Don Murray demonstrates compassionately how horror can stalk into a humdrum living room (TIME...
...single stem-for small gardeners who want to make the kind of splashy effect with half a dozen rosebushes that estate gardeners get with whole beds. Today 70% of J. & P.'s rose sales are in floribundas. For those who want dozens of blossoms on a single stalk, J. & P. developed the 5-ft.-high, fast-selling tree rose, still cannot keep up with orders...
...Invented by Gillies; so-called because the flap, while being grafted into its new position, is left attached to a tubular stalk (pedicle) of tissue and thus well supplied with blood. The pedicle is removed later...
Though she and her escort were shabbily dressed, their arrival in a dive invariably resulted in the same "sudden, startling transformation." The yipping, hollering, three-piece band would stop its "loud perversion" of hillbilly music. The patrons would stalk out, glaring venomously at the intruders. In one joint a husky bouncer planted himself beside the reporters, "cracked his fingernails and waited, just looking...