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Some novels speak with nature's voices of silence, like a field of grass. At a critical touch they flatten elusively out of reach; uprooted blade by blade from the soil of context, their individual scenes and episodes wither. The authors of such books are easy to underestimate because they are so difficult to praise. Speaking softly on some quiet theme, they say little that is arresting, even when they are subtly telling all that is important. Russian Novelist Vera Panova is such a writer. Her subject: the day-to-day life of a six-year...
...cried the Dutchman when he saw Sooi, "have you got a license to import those pigs?" Retorted Sooi: "I am on Belgian soil-Hertog soil." It soon turned out that in a way he was right: in their treaty of 1843 Holland and Belgium had decided that the land in question was Dutch, but because of an error of a sleepy clerk, it was listed as Belgian-as Sooi subsequently proved in court...
...nine houses from the railway. He promptly hoisted the Belgian flag, demanded that his new tenants pay Belgian rents rather than the lower Dutch rents. Later, he decided that since there was still so much confusion as to the nationality of the land, he would declare it "Sooi" soil until the bosses in Brussels and The Hague straightened things out. To stir the authorities, he put up posters saying, "Are Belgians Afraid of the Dutch?" When that did not bring results, he cut down three "Sooi" trees and barricaded the road with their trunks. When Dutch police arrived on bicycles...
...FARM-INCOME drop of about $1 billion to $12.1 billion in 1959 is forecast by Agriculture Department because of higher production costs and elimination of some soil-bank payments. Income is still expected to be well above...
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). Teen-age science students explain their experiments with atomic energy, soil quality, snails...