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...organizer of the festival. Still, to Kennard, a wiry, intense man who speaks with the precision of a schoolteacher, sheep raising makes sense in New Hampshire. "Sheep do excellently on hillsides that can't be used for any thing else," says Kennard. "The rough rule of thumb is that one acre of good pasture will support five sheep. With three or four acres you can have...
Within the Administration, there is general agreement on what the Cubans are up to: Castro, always the ideologue, is exporting revolution to win friends and thumb his nose at the U.S. But there are two importantly different schools of thought as to what the Russians are up to. One view is that the Soviets are, as usual, merely reacting to targets of opportunity; helping the Katangese rebels, for instance, gives them a chance for some low-cost, low-risk adventurism, with possibly big rewards. This is basically Vance's view, although he admits to some uncertainty about Moscow's ultimate...
...network has few old shows to build on. NBC is betting that at least some of its new shows will make it to the Top 20. That is a questionable proposition, considering that every single one of its new series failed last season. "There's a rule of thumb," says Producer Tom Miller, "that you don't have a full night of programming without one old show to act as anchor. Without that audience familiarity, NBC may be throwing two or three programs to the winds...
...suppliers' credits to Chile have not only replaced official bilateral and multilateral loans as Chile's principal sources of external financing, but far surpassed them in importance to the military junta. The tremendous influx of private bank loans since 1976 gave the Pinochet regime a green light to thumb its nose at international pressure designed to improve the human rights situation in Chile...
Pride and excellence go hand in hand; one promotes the other. Black solidarity is Professor Kilson's term for what is becoming Third World solidarity. It is neither thumb-sucking behavior nor a cop-out, but rather a positive expression of shared interests that demonstrates an increasing potential for meaningful interaction between culturally distinct groups...