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Page 4 The Battalion Wednesday, April 19,1989 Time’s Running Out! Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late To Get Your Classified Ad In Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 a $1. 00 Day Every Tuesday and Wednesday *New Releases Included over 4,000 Videos to Choose From Nintendo Games Also It’S 4303 Texas Ave S. 846-7312 Warped by Scott McCufe WE'LL BE BACK. TO THE ^ WKPD UTE noVlE, \ S’HEKLOCK HOLMES VS. \ y X)HQ KONG after f THESE W0RP5. Hi FRIENDS, COME ON ^ DOM TO CRATf HAKVE’S AWTJQOE. STORE FOR. ^ > EIS L.WE RE UNLOADING > 1 ALL OF 00R OLD STOCK > TO MAKE WM FOR A X SHIPMENTOF THE MUST' W MODOW FURNITURE ^vvvvrNT* i am x mn or vjiw’ij 1 WERE AT CRATf Mm ] ANTIQUE... AH-Twot... i HEV, WAIT A MIMEJ A Ihv Waldo by Kevin Thomas OUR STORY CLOSES WITH THE COMPUTER SERVICES CENTER. DR. YAHOO DIDN'T MEET WITH WALDO BECAUSE OF IMPORTANT STUFF... fCSC EMPLOYEES WILL START 'the cay by standing in a CIRCLE AND PATTING EACH OTHER ON THE BACK... 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But when he talks tomatoes, he sounds like a farmer. “We need rain,” he says. “We had six weeks of hot weather last summer, hot and dry. It knocked our to matoes down. We didn’t even enter the 58th Street hor ticulture fair, but when I saw tomatoes that won prizes, I said what the heck, our tomatoes are as good as these. We could have won a prize. “Nobody had real good tomatoes last summer.” An unlikely midmorning conversation, an unlikely farmer, talking about crops grown from seeds from an unlikely place: The seed-jammed office of the America the Beautiful Fund in an aging office building a few blocks from the White House. It may be the only office in Washington in which the top drawer of a green file cabinet is labeled “Prairie Grass,” the middle drawer is labeled “Bulk Flowers and Muskmelon,” the bottom drawer is labeled “Corn, Beans, Pea Packets.” From these shoebox quarters, and operating on a shoestring, the fund distributes donated vegetable, herb and flower seeds and bulbs to local projects across America. America the Beautiful Fund turns out to be four part-time workers, a handful of volunteers and a full time staff of three — wildlife biologist Paul Bruce Dowl ing, founder and executive director; former actress Na- nine Bilski, national projects director, and anthropolo gist Nat Thomas, who spends much of his time packing envelopes with seed packets. They are Johnny Appleseeds with ^computer—and •dUi broader list of seeds to give away. They figure 1 their “Operation Green Plant” reaches into one counK ( in 10, maybe even one in three. The idea is simplicity itself: Persuade a dozen of the nation’s seed companies to donate — rather than de stroy — “last year’s” seeds, on the promise they will go only to people who would not be in a position to them at the corner hardware store. Persuade APA Transport and other trucking compa nies tea bring in the seeds at no charge. Persuade local poverty agencies, 4-H clubs, church groups, neighbor hood associations, refugee centers, drug rehabilitation centers, county health departments, soup kitchens, nursing homes — even hospices for AIDS patients-lo start a gardening project. Charge them only the cost of shipping the seeds — 50 cents a pound. For $12 in shipping fees, a group could get enough seed to grow two acres of tomatoes and one acre each of corn, lettuce, cucumbers, green peppers and squash. The idea started in 1980 with 60 beautifieation pro jects. It took off when the new environmental ethic matched up with the nation’s dawning awareness that there was hunger can the street corners, in the small towns and even can the farms of this prosperous, fertile and sometimes over-fed land. Last season, 15,000 groups asked for, received and distributed 500,000 packets of seeds and 511,000 pounds of bulk seeds. That’s enough, Dowling estimates, to provide “over 70 million pounds of fresh, nutritious food, grown by and for hungry people at the cost of a penny a pound.” Visitors to 1939 World’s Fair were given a glimpse of today NEW YORK (AP) — In many a dresser drawer across the country, amid the faded snapshots and other keepsakes, there rests a plastic pickle, a souvenir of a splendiferous tomorrow that came and went. Fifty years ago, in the interlude between the Great Depression and World War II, the pickle’s owner had gone to Flushing, Queens to dis cover a sleek and glittering future. The visitor to the 1939 New York World’s Fair came away with visions of televisions and superhighways, of nylon stockings and automatic milk ing machines, of man-made light ning and aerated bread — all this and a pickle pin, one of six million such souvenirs distributed at the HJ. Heinz pavilion. They saw wonders like the Walker-Gordon Rotolactor, a revolv ing platform on which five cows were showered, dried with sterile towels and mechanically milked. They watched the 7-foot-tall West- inghouse robot, Elektro^ and his “moto-dog,” Sparko. They toured 200 buildings—each of them spec tacular — 175 sculptures and 105 murals. “Everything was unfamiliar — they were dazzled by what the future could be,” says Barbara Cohen, au thor with Steven Heller and Sey mour Chwast of “Trylon and Peris- phere: The 1939 New York World’s Fair.” That was the aim of the fair’s or ganizers — that, and to bring tourist dollars to New York City. The city’s business elite had been impressed by the 1933 Century of Progress fair in Chicago. They proposed a fair to mark the 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration in New York. Grover A. Whelan, former police commissioner, head of a distillery and the bow-tied barker-boss of the 1939 World’s Fair, said at the time: “By giving a dear and orderly inter pretation of our own age, the fair will project the average man into the World of Tomorrow.” The symbols of the fair were two abstract shapes, at once classical and modernistic — the Trylon, a 610- foot spike, and the globular Peris- phere, a theater twice the si:,e of Ra dio City Music Hall which was home to Democracity, a multimedia depic tion of the city of the future. Radio commentator H.V. Kalten- born narrated the six-minute show: “As day fades into night, each man seeks a home, for here are children, comfort, neighbors, recreation —the good life of a well-planned city.” The same theme wa^ struck at the fair’s most popular exhibit, General Motors’ Futurama, where 552 mov ing chairs carried fairgoers past a di orama depicting the United States, circa 1960 — a place where seven- lane, radio-controlled highways di rected teardrop-shaped cars at 100 mph. In the future, the narrator saii cars would be air-conditioned, H< was right. He said they would costs! little as $200. He was wrong. “The land is much greener than* was in 1939 . . . Men love their field! and gardens better and morf wisely,” Life magazine wrote of Fii 1 turama. “O Dy giving a clear and orderly interpretation ofouf own age, the fair will project the average man into the World of Tomorrow.” — Grover A. Whelan, barker-boss, ’39 World’s Fail Spectators often waited in linet" 11 hours to see Futurama. But ther* was so much to do, and so littletinit' They ran to the AT&T buildiol to see the VODER, a speech syntblj sizer, and to enter the contest for* free long-distance call. They rant* the Dairy World of Tomorrow meet Elsie the Cow. They ran to lit* DuPont exhibit to witness the woH' ders of nylon, Lucite and cello phane, and to RCA to see the fn* 1 regular broadcasts of television.