Word: flatness
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North America's most comprehensive welfare state is the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan. In a flat wheatland more than twice the size of New Mexico, 907,000 scattered inhabitants share a tradition of help-the-other-fellow frontier radicalism that is as old as provincial incorporation 54 years ago. But most of Saskatchewan's social-welfare schemes have been concocted since 1944 by Canada's only socialist government, run by the ever-winning (four straight elections) Cooperative Commonwealth Federation party. Last week CCF Premier T. C. ("Tommy") Douglas dissolved his 53-seat legislature, in which...
...Alfred Smith of the University of California has found that when they are centrifuged, the anti-gravity muscles of their drumsticks grow to as much as seven times normal. But chickens are not so successful as mice at high-G reproduction. They try-but tend to lay flat, infertile eggs...
...wall, changing back and forth, working at it from different sides." She usually begins with no particular idea in mind: "Let's say I start with some arbitrary color, or I simply start." Gradually, the picture builds-"an amorphous inner-world perspective that lies flat on canvas and yet flies out"-and when it is done, it is given a name...
...moody man ("I always look sad in photographs"), Cloar took as his subject his own kind of people, who lived in such places as Calico Rock, Ash Flat and Evening Shade. "The family album," he has said, "was my research." Working in bright tempera because "it responds to me better," he painted everything from the Baptist Sunday school he had attended, to a memory called "The Lightning That Struck Rufo Barcliff it killed him." By last week, as his latest one-man show was being put together at Manhattan's Alan Gallery, his hand was surer than ever...
When Brinkley drifted to tiny Milford, Kansas in 1917, his assets were a sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...