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...house plant can be a thing of joy and beauty until that point at which no prescription-talking to it, feeding it vitamins, watering it with Perrier or soothing it with Brahms-can rescue it from terminal dropsy. The green thumb turns down, the plant goes out, and the home horticulturist invests hope and dollars in yet another persnickety sprig. For more and more lovers of greenery, and indeed of year-round fresh vegetables, the answer is hydroponics, or water gardening...
...impact. He looked presidential in his dark blue suit, so much in contrast with the work-clothed audience. He was polite, deferential, but very much in charge. Things are out of control at home and abroad, he fairly shouted, pumping the air in that familiar Kennedy gesture, fingers folded, thumb on top. Brow furrowed, age and care showing deeply in the youngest Kennedy face, he went quickly to questions. "Yes, you ... in the red shirt," he half commanded. The smile had sparkle, but there was the hint of Irish toughness behind...
...Taken together, these developments created an atmosphere in which the Soviets felt no particular need to be cautious. Some well-informed Soviet sources privately admit that the Kremlin had become disenchanted with the course of detente and had decided to thumb its nose at the U.S. Had Afghanistan not come along, say these Soviet insiders, something else probably would have happened to permit Moscow to demonstrate that it no longer felt restrained by détente...
...result their poorly constructed, poorly thought out addresses wander from point to point, and listeners' minds wander too. Lack of effort is not necessarily a sign of sloth. Ministers increasingly are expected to bear heavy loads of counseling and administration that nibble away their time. One rule of thumb is to spend "an hour in the study for each minute in the pulpit." But many modern preachers say they are lucky to manage half that...
...good rule of thumb is if a school has a good cross-country team, it's bound to have a good track team," coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday. During this year's cross-country season, the New Hampshire harriers beat the Crimson in a dual meet and placed higher in the Eastern Championships...