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...language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year's squid, cull, troll or nerd. The perennial rat fink is R.F. in Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely...
...limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly, in designing a common farm tractor, the Dutch want safety features to prevent the tractor from toppling backward as it pulls attachments through their heavy-clay lowland soil. The French want a tractor engineered not to topple sideways on the hills, where much French farming is done...
...returned to terra firma with a heavy sigh of relief, announced that he would do anything for Johnson but: "No more horses." The President haw-hawed, later shep herded a few people, including Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, on a leisurely sundown tour of the ranch, drawled contentedly about the soil, the rain, and the virtues of the U.S. voter. At the ranch after dinner, Lyndon and Hu bert kidded about their pre-election predictions; Johnson had said 44 states for the Democrats, Humphrey had guessed 45. Depending on how Arizona came out, either could have been right. Any how, they...
With only 275 million acres of tillable soil (the rest is too cold, mountainous or arid), Peking's planners have only one-third of an acre from which to nourish each stomach; whereas in other countries the ratio is two or three acres per person. With fertilizer still in short supply, rations continue slim...
...organs, and often when they cling together it is not for love. But at least one kind of microscopic bug has a sex life with a difference. Professors Pavel Nemec and Vojtech Bystricky of the Slovak Polytechnical University in Bratislava report that the Caulobacter, a harmless bacterium found in soil, possesses a multi-purpose organ that it often uses for a primitive kind of conjugation...