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Immigration is only one of the factors that have changed Australia profoundly since World War II. The country still has its bush pilots and grizzled cowboys, its sheepherders who travel around their 100,000-acre spreads by motorcycle, and its "kings in grass castles'' who raise huge herds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Australia: She'll Be Right, Mate--Maybe | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

ERV WALTERS is an archetypal American farmer: rugged, sinewy, industrious and forthright. He has spent nearly every one of his 51 springs working the rich Midwest land. In 1941 he and his wife Lucille came to Illinois from their native Wisconsin with, as he proudly recalls, "nothing more than the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time for Planting in Illinois | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

Rain Dances. Even the elements seemed to be cooperating. Kansas City basked in an unseasonal 90°, Chicago in 85° heat. A drenching rain ended a two-month drought in Southern California, tying up Los Angeles freeways and delaying drivers as much as two hours. In the bone-dry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: And, It Might As Well Be Spring | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Exploring Family rents a 13-acre avocado farm for $450 a month plus the labor of watering 300 trees. There are only two rules: no drugs on school property, and no dogs inside the bungalow. The only schedule involves sporadic sessions on Women's Lib and natural science, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chaos and Learning: The Free Schools | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Into Oblivion. Last week conservationists swarmed into Washington to protest the Forest Service's actions before the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands. In Montana's 1,575,000-acre Bitterroot National Forest, argued Guy M. Brandborg, a former Forest Service official, clear-cutting has caused widespread erosion, threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tumult Over Timbering | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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