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...plow the steep hillsides year after year, planting corn in any and all directions without regard for erosion. Sam Carver was no throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...
...last real farmer his family was to produce-until Joe Moore, with an intense desire to restore the land to richness, came along. Joe is a living contradiction to the widespread-and wrong-explanation of U.S. farm productivity: the notion that the U.S. has "new" and naturally hyper-fertile soil. Joe successfully farms acres that would make a Polish peasant blanch with dismay. Yet he devoutly believes that his rocky slopes "can be made to grow good crops-just as good as the flat land, or maybe even better, with enough work. I'll make them grow everything they...
Angry crowds gathered at the dockside as Armitage murmured to an aide his last words on Cypriot soil ("I do hope George remembered my umbrella") and departed. The smaller, non-Communist Cyprus Confederation of Workers joined the Communist union and paralyzed the island with a 24-hour strike. Idle workers stoned British troops in Limassol and tried to mass in Nicosia's square, but the Tommies and police fixed bayonets, swung clubs, fired tear gas, arrested 209 demonstrators, and generally let it be known that with the coming of Fighting John Harding, Cyprus' era of tolerant umbrellaism...
...safe and mobile hideout under a foreign flag on the Paraguayan gunboat. He, spent all last week there, while Argentina prodded Paraguay to guarantee that it would not let Perón mount a counterrevolution from Paraguay, which is separated only by rivers from Argentine soil. This week, apparently satisfied, Argentina let its busted boss fly off to exile...
Bison & Oxen. The fame of the school of mines soon spread to the whole institution. The university's 13-building campus is uniquely equipped to give special training. Its geologists have studied the chemistry of the arctic's soil and the effect of frost and thaw. Its Geophysical Institute has become a center for research into the upper atmosphere and the aurora. Last year some 30,000 visitors trooped through its museum to examine 100,000 Indian and Eskimo exhibits as well as the skeletons of the hairy mammoth, super bison, musk ox, Pleistocene horse and saber-toothed...