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...spend the winter and spring pruning and "pulling leaves." This last job involves plucking the leaves from the grape clusters early in the summer so that the grapes will be able to develop fully. Pluckers travel about two miles a day on their knees, and return home with burning sulfur insecticide spray all over their bodies and in their eyes...
Antonioni recognizes the beauty of that silence, as well as the enormous beauty of the factory itself. But, as Giuliana tells her son, the yellow sulfur flame from a smokestack, so similar to a candle, is intensely poisonous. Perhaps the world of the white-frocked scientist will be better than what has gone before it, perhaps there are dangers we do not recognize. Only one conclusion is clear: man has created his new environment and now must accept the consequences...
Cabot also said that the University has no Texas Gulf Sulfur stock now in its general investment account. He doubted that there was any of the stock in other Harvard funds either...
Paul C. Cabot '21, Treasurer of the University, said yesterday that Harvard bought no stock in the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company...
Thomas S. Lamont '21-a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation and a Director of Texas Gulf Sulfur-and 12 other men were accused Monday of illegally withholding for five months information about a rich ore discovery made by the company in November...