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...cows are tethered. Twice a day the farmer's wife will put a stool down next to the cow and milk by hand. Because Poland was the least collectivized of the bloc countries, it has a particularly picturesque countryside, including forests where edible mushrooms are avidly gathered in late autumn...
Matt Salinger, actor son of the reclusive novelist J.D., stars as the World War II superhero. He battles archrival the Red Skull in this film set for autumn release...
Last September, in the dark autumn of Dianne Feinstein's discontent, her campaign for the governorship of California seemed dead in the water. She had been laid up half the summer recovering from a hysterectomy. Her San Francisco-based political consultant had ditched her, complaining that she lacked sufficient "fire in the belly" to respond to the opposition's scoffing attacks about her low profile. As she fell twelve points behind in the polls, many politicians guessed she might have to drop out of the race...
...hazard is that less than half the 320,000 people who graduate from high school or university next month are likely to find jobs. This could be political dynamite. "We don't like to think of the consequences of 160,000 young people on the loose this autumn," admitted an official...
...etymology can be traced, with rare nicety, to the last Big Bang in world affairs before the current one -- the pivotal autumn of 1945, just after the end of World War II and before the beginning of the cold war. "Our national security can only be assured on a very broad and comprehensive front," said Navy Secretary James Forrestal at a Senate hearing that fall. He added, "I am using the word security here consistently and continuously, rather than defense." Senator Edwin Johnson replied, "I like your words national security...