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...clustered around the transistor radio are almost all outsize and beefy, wearing pea jackets and hard hats. One of them sports a silk foulard tucked into the front of his V-necked cardigan. A white Mercedes is parked near by, surrounded by less regal vehicles-Peugeots, Fiats, a few pickups...
...week the Administration will announce a stiff program of export controls on these feeds, and perhaps corn as well. President Nixon acted after the Commerce Department reported that export commitments for June, July and August were so great that the nation was in danger of running out of the pea-shaped, yellow or green, protein-loaded soybeans before the next harvest begins in September...
...Hospital and staffed by ten physicians, sees 500 a year. Rimoin and his colleagues can now identify at least 50 types of dwarfism, and have determined the causes of many of these abnormalities. Midgets, who are tiny but normally proportioned, are usually victims of an underactive pituitary gland, a pea-sized organ at the base of the brain that is largely responsible for the secretion of growth hormone (HGH). Other dwarfs, who tend to have normal-sized heads and trunks but extremely short arms and legs, usually have different hormone deficiencies...
Unfortunately, Walter neglected to tell the Lil' Pea Greens that for 11 out of the past 12 seasons, winning has not been a part of that great tradition. Last season's 14-12 mark was the first winning record the Governor and his friends have seen in the past dozen at Hanover...
...deepest emotions in space seem to have involved man's home planet. Says Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and now a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati: "I remember on the trip home on Apollo 11 it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." To Apollo 8's Bill Anders, seeing the earth from out there evoked...