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Some day soon the track at Olympic Stadium will be sold off. The stadium, after all, is being converted into a baseball park, and in keeping with the never-say-die spirit of commerce shown by the Games of Atlanta, an auction will be held for sections of the vulcanized rubber track that produced two world records, 13 Olympic records and countless dramas. What are we bid for the finish line of Lane...
...occupied by the Freemen--or to some 4,000 adjacent acres once owned by Ralph, Emmett and Edwin. Mortgages on that land were foreclosed after the Clarks stopped making payments. Emmett's grandson Dean, 30, then tried to save the family holdings by buying 3,000 acres back at auction--but stands to lose them again because the siege has prevented him from getting last year's wheat crop to market or this year's crop in the ground. Last fall, when Dean tried to retrieve stored wheat from the silos at his grandfather's [foreclosed] farm, his father Richard...
...inevitable, ranchers south of San Antonio have been hiring day laborers to "burn pear," Texas lingo for applying a butane torch to the cactus and searing off the spines so that cattle can munch on what remains. But many ranchers across the affected regions have given up, offering at auction the creatures they can no longer afford to feed...
...blown them up into posters, stuck them into time capsules as mementos for their children. But few took so seriously the idea of TIME as the first draft of history as did the late U.S. Army Colonel Robert Carter, who wanted his draft signed. This week Sotheby's will auction off 1,925 autographed TIME covers that Carter collected until he died in 1975. Through pleading letters, well-placed intermediaries and sheer doggedness, Carter tracked down artists, astronauts, athletes and war criminals--everyone from Jimmy Hoffa to Winston Churchill. "After his retirement, he started collecting very aggressively," says Elizabeth Muller...
...Beethoven's turn, thanks to two Arizona music lovers. They bought a lock of hair at an auction in 1994, and have offered it for scientific analysis. So far, researchers have learned that the composer didn't have lice and didn't take morphine for his kidney stones or his cirrhosis of the liver. They're still looking for traces of mercury and lead, either of which could have caused his famous deafness; the former would be an especially juicy find, since mercury in those days was used to treat syphilis, which some scholars think Beethoven may have had. They...