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September 1975

Once Over Lightly

Sense and nonsense on the road to recovery

SPEAKING OF EXPERIENCE, it must have taken a good deal of it for Eli Whitney to figure out a way to get the seeds out of cotton bolls. But he finally succeeded, and one day marched into his house and proudly announced to his wife, "I've just invented a cotton gin."

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