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...Iran, awash with oil, officials pleaded with Butz to help them increase their food production. In Cairo and Warsaw and a dozen other capitals where a Secretary of Agriculture used to get a hasty treatment they now roll out the red carpet. Chuckles Butz...
...carpet of dust of El Bahu's one street, a skinny crone pats into bricks a mass of inky black, slimy mud mixed with straw, the same kind of building material used in Moses' time. The old woman's husband, Hammouda Hamed, tills his two acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving...
...down on speeding violations, even the cops seem to drive estate wagons. Things are hidden from the Mass Pike, nicely shrubberied away, but upper New York is up front mobile homes on concrete blocks, set alone, and the decaying industrial cities like Amsterdam on the Mohawk River, where the carpet factory that bred the place is definitely not taking care of its own anymore, which shows. Outside of these towns like Herkimer and Fultonville sit grand junction-type Dutch mansions, propped-up and naked-looking, simple and sensible roosts for burghers long dead, and often no one lives in them...
...National Broadcasting Co. subsidiary. He became head of NBC in 1955 and was elevated to the presidency of RCA in 1966. Shortly after, he started RCA on an ambitious diversification effort. His main acquisitions: Hertz Corp., Random House Inc., Cushman & Wakefield Inc. (real estate) and Coronet Industries Inc. (a carpet and furniture manufacturer). A majority of RCA's board backed Sarnoff throughout his acquisition program, and even last week directors did not criticize his management-but they thought his pay was high enough...
...STRAVINSKY'S Rite of Spring did for music, what Gutenberg did for journalism, what the internal combustion engine did for auto racing, Bally's Wizard has now done for pinball. Every so often an entire field of human endeavor is picked up, turned over, and shaken like a dusty carpet--and when the air clears we can say for certain that a part of our lives will never again be the same. And that is what is being said by the small, but ever increasing stream of visitors to the Underdog on Bow Street: visitors who, as often...