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Hernandez has been pushing land reform. The government has been buying underutilized acreage and selling it in small parcels on easy terms to landless peasant families. To promote the program, Hernandez occasionally pays visits to the farm towns, during which they festoon themselves as if for a saint's day. The lean, handsome Governor draws lots to match each young family with its new farm. "It is economic necessity and has great social value as well," Hernandez says. "We must give the people options...
...conservationists' eyes, the act could have been worse. Lobbyists had tried to festoon it with no fewer than 125 amendments-many aiming to vitiate the Clean Air law-but Congress knocked them down. Even so, environmentalists are worried about the striking erosion during recent months of some of their hard-won gains...
...music become part of some whites' lifestyles. This is osmotic rather than overt, something in the mood and tempo of his work, and not in the presence of any black characters in his plays. Nor is it his only concern. Fast cars, mechanical gadgetry, chrome and plastic values festoon his works and form a symbolic veneer under which, he seems to be saying, older American ideals are shriveling...
...essay this week deals with imaginary numbers, those intriguing but often inadequately supported figures that festoon our data-happy society. Like other publications, TIME sometimes finds it impossible to avoid using such numbers. They are accurate as far as anyone knows, but inevitably they represent estimates rather than precise measurements. In the current issue, the cover story quantifies East Pakistan's essentially unmeasurable agony in several ways (more than 7,000,000 refugees fled to India, for example). Elsewhere we note that U.S. crops are annually dusted with "about 1 billion pounds of pesticide" (ENVIRONMENT), and that microorganisms once...
...book is one of those narrative toothpick trees that the '20s musicals utilized only to festoon with girls and dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature...