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...terribly surprised and disappointed . . . what's more I am getting more and more disappointed in your taste for "novelties" on covers. The May 30 cover [California's Governor Knight] is more appropriate for a seed catalogue...
...peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going up to seed in her hair . . . The room was dark except for the flashing ... of the sign across the street that said Moving and Storage . . . [These] words . . . seemed to be the last pronouncement about human life...
...with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation. Even in brush-covered territory, says Cohen, the Wonsover can plant 70 acres in 24 hours v. 460 hours for conventional tractors, plows and seeders...
...America's only hope for survival is in unified effort for peace backed by firm international agreement to combat aggression, he graces the launching platform of the U.N. as a self-guided missile with a homing instinct, primed for a global trajectory, and well laden not with the seed of destruction but the hope of humanity...
...TIME shows a seed package marked "California Poppy, Mixed Colors." The California poppy is a wild flower, and grows only in one color...