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...Cleveland. Most useful present: a leather-covered toolbox, complete with screwdrivers and toenail clippers, given to buxom, blond-wigged Country Singer Dolly Parton, who says her new toolbox is "very feminine looking" and filled with "things I can use on the road." Most jovially received present: a pound of bacon, presented by reporters to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance before they all landed at Andrews Air Force Base last week. Said the correspondent chosen to hand over the pork, forbidden to both Jews and Muslims: "This gift contains no salt and has been rejected by both parties in the Middle...
When President Carter told reporters at a White House bacon-and-egg breakfast last week that U.S.-Soviet differences on a SALT II agreement were minor and that further delays would be minimal, few of those present even raised their eyebrows. After all, Government spokesmen have been saying for at least two years that the second stage of a strategic arms limitation treaty is 95% complete. But TIME has learned that, almost as Carter was speaking, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin were achieving a breakthrough on that unresolved...
...Davis-Bacon Act. This law is more likely to be changed than the minimum wage. Davis-Bacon forces contractors working on federally aided construction projects to pay workers at the "prevailing" local wage. But, in administering the act, Labor Department officials often seek guidance only from local union chiefs, who quote the highest wage in the region. The White House is considering advising the Labor Department to become more objective and include some nonunion wages in its calculations...
...went home to Bacon County, got married, and spent the next few years trading one barren farm for another, always behind at the bank. One story especially illuminates the Crews' plight during these years: In 1936 they got a little ahead and were able to buy two cows. Early one morning, Mrs. Crews, cleaning the floor with homemade lye, happened to notice their two cows wandering towards a barrel of lead poisoning used for spraying tobacco plants. She yelled for Ray, but far out in the fields he couldn't hear her, and so she started for the cows herself...
...joking and laughter were gone. In Bacon County you did not curse "the sun or the rain or the land or God. They were all the same thing." To have lived there and known that was something Crews had forgotten--something the pop sociologists, fresh from one tour down Interstate 20, never understood--but he knew it again and would always know it. We are fortunate he has taken the time to explain...