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...Bolton's Law of Ascending Budgets. Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess.−Rand Institute Fellow Joe Bolton...
...ramshackle one-story barracks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies on TV. Others play dominoes or listen to country music blaring from a stereo radio. In the steamy kitchen, its walls painted a drab military gray, chicken soup with dumplings, sea In the ramshackle one-story bar racks near Bolton, Mass., 16 Jamaicans relax after their ten-hour day in the orchards. Some sip canned Budweiser as they sit on a steel-framed bed watching The Rookies...
Despite the long days and spare quarters, the Jamaicans seem to enjoy their stint at Bolton. For Trevor Brown, 20, a native of Portland, Jamaica, apple picking has been a steady and therefore welcome source of income for the past four years. At home, Brown guides tourists on a bamboo raft down the Rio Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking...
...pickers themselves are feeling anything but harassed now that the harvest season is coming to an end. As they bring in the last of the crop, each can count on being about $1,500 richer. In the barracks at the Bolton orchards, the Jamaicans celebrate the end of the harvest by passing around a bottle of blackberry brandy, a favorite that they break out only on rare occasions. Vernon Spaulding, 44, is looking forward to moving south. But he won't get home to Paredon, Jamaica, where he raises goats, until next March. This year, as he has done...
Died. Frances P. Bolton, 91, for nearly 29 years a member of Congress from Ohio; in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Bolton was named to succeed her husband Chester in the House when he died suddenly in 1939 because, presumably, "I knew his thinking. Actually, I didn't have the slightest idea what he thought." Deemed the "Congressman's Congressman" by Eleanor Roosevelt, Bolton was the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she was defeated for re-election at the age of 83. An internationalist, she was fascinated by Africa, often paying her own expenses to visit...