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Perhaps. Some lawyers hold that almost all Mexican divorces obtained by Americans are entirely worthless. Other divorce-law experts insist that the situation is not all that bad, that a correctly handled Mexican divorce is perfectly valid in most of the 50 states. But if someone contests it later, defending a Mexican quickie-cheapie can prove long-drawn-out, costly and uncertain...
...series of angry complaints. Most collective farmers do not know the first thing about using chemical fertilizer; the Ukraine is planning a crash program to educate 4,000 "skilled fertilizer appliers." Superphosphate fertilizer arrives at the farms with only 20% of the required chemical nutrients; the rest is worthless ballast that gets lumpy and heavy in the rain. Russia has an impressive 561 soil laboratories, but most of them have only one or two employees and the wrong equipment...
...Street since the crash of '29. Billed as satire, it opens bullish, closes bearish, but mostly just bumbles along with a portfolio full of otiose gags about Texas, the sexes (at least three), and stockbrokers-with the brokers depicted as a shifty lot who spend their time peddling worthless securities to unsuspecting clients. The plot has something to do with a young speculator who arrives in Manhattan from Texas, buys the first taxicab he climbs into, snaps up a swank restaurant because his date likes to eat there, impulsively flies to Europe and hops right back with a grand...
...know adults who cannot even read the want ads, and sense the despair of unskilled teen-agers loitering on streets where drink, dope or death is the only exit. Yet as other Americans reach new heights of affluence and aspiration, slum kids are made to feel all the more worthless by their poverty and the color of their skin. Often, dinner is a hamburger served in a paper bag; books are nonexistent; home is a rooming house so transient that in a recent year 50% of all Manhattan pupils switched schools, making a mockery of sustained education...
...Cowan's assertions may be used by those who are trying to reduce parietal hours as a justification for their case. I hope this will not happen. And I do not think it will. Anyone who reads Mr. Cowan's article carefully will realize that his assertions are worthless because he does not document them and gives no hint of having done any research. George Beecroft...