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...might say that L.B.J. planted the seed of the idea. When the President suggested that American vacationers could do their country and themselves a good turn by visiting the U.S.A. this summer, he focused new interest on the variety and quality of places to go. This week's cover story, illustrated with lots of color pictures, examines the best resorts in the country...
...shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offense," and required that no fine be so stiff "as to deprive him of his livelihood." Chapters 28 through 31 insisted that no government official might requisition food, troops, horses or carts without immediate payment: this is the seed of the "just compensation" clause in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution...
Died. Dr. Ichiro Ohga, 82, known throughout Japan as "Dr. Lotus" for his lifelong experiments with lotus plants, who won worldwide notice in 1952 when he succeeded in making a 2,000-year-old seed blossom into a beautiful pink flower and nursed the plant back to such health that it is still alive in a Kemigawa botanical garden dedicated to him; of a stroke; in Tokyo...
Notably successful in straightening out the tangled prose of the Pauline Epistles, the Confraternity translation occasionally falters into leaden phrasing in the Gospels. The parable of the sower and the seed (Matthew 13:24-30) begins with all the grace of an Agriculture Department bulletin: "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to the situation of a farmer who sowed good seed in his field...
...desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...