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...tight rope, Lincoln asked: "Suppose all the property you were worth was in gold, and you had to put it in the hands of Blondin to carry across Niagara. Would you shake the cable, or-keep shouting at him, 'Blondin, stand up a little straighter - Blondin, stoop a little more - lean a little more to the north - lean a little more to the south'? No, you would hold your breath as well as your tongue and keep your hands off until he was safe over...
...Kremlin's biggest worries is the disintegration of Communist unity. Of the 14 Communist states, five are not represented by their top leaders at this week's celebration. Albania rejected the invitation, and China did not stoop to reply, while Cuba's Fidel Castro, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and North Korea's Kim II Sung sent others in their place. The schisms are all the more serious because they come at a time when Russia's rulers lack the imagination and daring to formulate a policy to deal with them...
...Oscar Wilde, whose first slight volume of poetry appeared at nearly the same time as the play, in 1881; those without such a passion may recognize friends first met at Advocate discussions of minor poets. No matter the disposition, Stephen Michaels, who plays this fiercely languid lack knee stoop shoulder will be recognized as an actor of surpassing talents. With reed wrists and cuffs that billow to set them off he prances--for God's sake prances, there has never been such prancing with a human leg--prances through two acts, two loves and onto a cheery celibacy. The subtitle...
America, America, how do you breed these mores? The adulteress would not "dirty" herself by accepting money; the whore would not stoop to sending her man off to work all day for wages she can earn in half an hour. A wonderful "market" for attorneys and orphanages and jailers. Corruption in Asia! Indeed...
While machinery has eliminated plenty of agricultural jobs, sometimes it works the other way around, with labor shortages causing "forced mechanization." In the case of tomatoes, field workers, turning from arduous stoop work to higher-paying jobs in town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California...