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Ratoons, Novelist Rooke explains, are the sprouts that spring from last year's sugar-cane roots. No full-grown stalk of a novel. Ratoons itself bristles with sprouts of promise...
...wharves of Karachi were gay with posters that showed U.S. and Pakistani flags joined by clasped hands beneath a stalk of wheat. Cabinet ministers, a 40-piece band and 2,000 spectators were on hand to greet the U.S. freighter Anchorage Victory, bringing the first of 1,000,000 tons of surplus wheat sent by President Eisenhower to relieve the nation's famine...
...years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times before he was out of knee pants. He didn't see the inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled in a Hollywood kindergarten. By then, death had begun to stalk the O'Connor family. Today only Donald, his mother and his 47-year-old brother Jack are still alive. Donald, who is separated from his wife, Actress Gwen Carter, has a six-year-old daughter named Donna...
...playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute and with head cocked attentively...
Unlike most conifers the Metasequoia has its leaves arranged on exactly opposite sides of the stalk instead of alternating. The cones are small like those of the hemlock or larch...