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...brother Edward. A genial Scot with a sporran full of jokes on himself and his countrymen, 72-year-old Sir John is flanked by two other family physicians: Welsh-born Dr. Daniel Davies, 51, a topnotch pathologist, and Sir Horace Evans, 48, specialist in diseases of the kidneys, urinary tract and arteries...
...again. In a stand of Douglas fir near Oregon's misty Coos Bay, John Philip Weyerhaeuser Jr., Yale-educated president of the $273 million Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., unveiled a plaque to mark 203,000 acres of second-growth timber set aside as a "tree farm." On this tract, as on the other 1,979,568 acres of Weyerhaeuser tree farms, timber will be treated as a crop just like corn, cotton and cucumbers, be harvested over an 80-year cycle...
...conference.*Sample bout: on Dec. 11, 1928, he outlined-his plans to attend the dedication of the carillon at the Edward Bok bird sanctuary in Florida. To one reporter, unable to understand the plans for the bell tower, Coolidge snapped: "Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary, and putting up these bells to interest the birds in music...
...drafted to build roads through the wilderness to carry fuel to the big machines. Despite India's heat and dust, the drivers-many of whom had driven tanks in the Indian army-kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared a 7,000-acre tract of kans, the Indian government swung a $10 million loan from the World Bank, bought 240 more U.S. tractors, equipped them with specially designed root-cutting plows. Peasants who saw others' fields freed of the weed begged to have their own plowed, and draped the tractors with blossoms...
...Halfway through the book it becomes clear that Lannie and Hollingsworth are working together to force McLeod to surrender a precious "little object" stolen from the U.S. Government. From then on, in a nonstop talkalogue, Author Mailer shunts his narrative cargo off the fictional track and into an editorial tract. Using the stereotypes of the tortured confessional, the state spy, the bureaucratic machine, universal fear and insecurity, he achieves at best a small-beer Nineteen Eighty-Four. At worst, he talks like a highbrow caught with his I.Q. down...