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Tension is now the password in Barn 42, as Greer and trainer Leroy Jolley await the biggest test of Foolish Pleasure's racing career. While the colt has captured headline after headline on route to ten victories in eleven career starts, the rapid development of other powerful contenders has drastically changed the complexion of the 101st Derby...
When Richard M. Ketchum, a farmer in Dorset, Vt. (pop. 1,293), rose at his customary 5 a.m. one day this month, he could hear a cow bellowing in pain. Ketchum, who left his job as a Manhattan book editor five years ago, hurried to his barn and minutes later handed his wife a quivering, wobbly-legged newborn calf. Then he went off to care for another recent offspring: Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, a unique combination of country charm and big-city slickness, which last week won a National Magazine Award...
Seeking to escape a childhood of drudgery, Anna married a tough young vagabond named Big Karl whom she met at a barn dance. He promised freedom and adventure, but the dream went unrealized: for seven years she followed him up and down Norway, always adrift and usually starving. She worked at various times as a farmhand and lumberjack, only to watch him disappear and squander her money...
Over the years, the White House has been declared unfit for family habitation. The Trumans called it a goldfish bowl, Jackie Kennedy grumbled that it was a barn, Julie Nixon Eisenhower referred to it as a museum. But the Fords, who never lived in a house larger than eight rooms before being catapulted into the 132-room Executive Mansion, obviously disagree, at least...
Farmers in 40 states are involved in the operation. Manure from dairy-barn floors is collected in underground tanks. The mixture is then treated with a chemical concocted by RJB Founder Richard J. Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain...