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...back garden and carry on for a year or more as if nothing had happened. Well, nothing much. Gerty is bad, and they punish her and she dies, and they bury her too. Then Dad turns up. They had never seen him before. He thinks they are "a ripe bunch of little bastards," but buys them treats until he gets fed up and wants to pack them "into the bleeding orphanage." So Hubert, the most responsible of the little ones, conks him on the head with a poker. It's that old burial problem all over again; then...
...world was ripe for change. In 1911, the dissident artists formed the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, which, they hoped, would put on an exhibition that would have the same notoriety and success as Paris' Salon des Refusées. As president, they chose Painter Arthur B. Davies. not so much because he had exhibited with the Ashcan School, but because he knew people of wealth and position. The choice had repercussions no one foresaw: while the Henri group wanted to put on a huge exhibition to call attention to "progressive" American art, Davies happened to have...
Except for a handful of growers who were wiped out when the frost killed off millions of young trees, the citrus industry still has a ripe future-and will probably continue to expand. Citrus trees begin to yield profitably after five years and bear fruit almost indefinitely, though taxmen write them off in 40 years. The hazards, beyond an occasional frost or round of tree diseases, are small. And the profit, with any kind of effort, is a juicy...
...long ago, the West was ready to write off Algeria's brash, sloganeering Premier Ahmed ben Bella as a Mediterranean Castro ripe for Red domination. But times do change. After seven months of independence, Ben Bella now relies on a tide of aid from the West, not the East, to keep his struggling country afloat. Only last week, Finance Minister Ahmed Francis returned from Paris with pledges of $280 million in French aid for 1963. At the same time, the U.S. tentatively agreed to launch a food relief program for hard-hit Algerian peasants; Ben Bella hopes this...
Said Professor Scott Gordon of Ottawa's Carleton University: "It's quite obvious that the financial crisis is well and truly over. The time is ripe, in fact overdue, for the government to take strong expansionist measures...