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...When the water goes," says W.E. Medlock, a stoic, third-generation farmer from Lubbock, Texas, who has lost 47 of his 73 wells in ten years, "we'll just go back to dry-land farming." To the farmers of the Great Plains, those words summon up visions of The Grapes of Wrath. Dry-land farming means larger farms with lower yields, fewer workers and probably higher prices in the supermarkets. Cattlemen know that less water means less corn and therefore smaller herds. Grubb calls such farming the "Russian roulette" of agriculture. Over a ten-year period, he says...
...will summon every kind of terror against God, says the LORD God; every man's sword will be against his brother. With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgement with him and his hordes, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples that are with him, torrential rains and hailstones, fire and brimstone. So I will show my greatness and my holiness...(Ezekial...
McNamara and his associates recognize that their proposal must be accompanied by a buildup of conventional forces on the Continent; they also question whether the alliance can summon the "necessary political will" to do so. Nonetheless, they argue, a shift in military policy would actually reduce the risk of Soviet cy would actually reduce the risk of Soviet aggression. While Moscow might be tempted today to seek a "quick and limited gain" that did not deserve a nuclear response, the Soviets would be less willing to take that gamble if confronted by a stronger conventional NATO defense. Although the authors...
Ellis, an elfin 42, made his name with highly imaginative sweater stylings for women. This spring he scored with a collection of women's wear in subtle pastels and shifting shapes that summon up echoes of the ragtime era. "When you're designing for women," he says, "you can do wonderfully imaginative clothes and create lots of different moods. With men you can do perhaps the same thing, but it's still more limited." Trying to work some stretch into those limitations, Ellis' leading men's jacket for fall will be long, narrowing gradually from...
...poverty did this. Inside their books was printed not EX LIBRIS but AD USUM-for the use of-indicating that it is better to lend than to keep, that all life's gifts are transitory. Should we not follow the clerics? Or might we just for once summon our true feelings on this subject and, upon hearing the terrible question, smile back and speak from the heart: "Mind? I'll break your arm, you bastard...