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However, there are plenty of outright disasters. Secretary of Agriculture John Block, an Illinois farmer himself, returned to his home state last week to inspect the devastation. The drought there is thought to be the worst in 30 years. In downstate Bond County, where some 80% of the corn crop has been destroyed, Block's National Guard helicopter swooped down onto a field of sorry, 6-in.-high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They...
...limited to swimming. In Hollywood, it means pairing off stars so that each is responsible for the safety of the film and sometimes of the other. Two new made-for-cable movies show that alone together against the world, such duos can survive only if they forge a bond that is purely chemical...
Developers have so far paid $5 million into the bond program. A few describe the city's zoning laws as extortionate. Others have tried to make the rules work in their favor. While building a 24-story office tower in the San Francisco financial district Texas Real Estate Developer Trammell Crow satisfied the letter of the law by installing 33 posh condominiums on the upper floors and put them up for sale at $400,000 to $2.5 million each. Crow eventually got to keep his apartments, but other builders were warned against violating the spirit of the housing regulation...
That snappy performance reflected the damn-the-expense attitude of Alan Bond, 45, the swashbuckling tycoon from Perth (real estate, mining, oil), who heads the Australia II syndicate. Bond, a onetime sign painter, is making his fourth try for the Cup, a record surpassed only by Britain's indomitable Sir Thomas Lipton earlier in the century. In his latest bid, Bond could spend as much as $3.5 million for a prize initially valued at only 100 guineas (about $70 by current reckoning...
...Bond's chief designer is Ben Lexcen, 47, who as a youngster in the small town of Boggabri in eastern Australia built such superior model racing sailboats that he had to give some away to keep his friends interested in competing. He gives nothing away now. Lexcen spent months in The Netherlands tank-testing eight different 25-ft. model hulls in secrecy to prevent the Americans from learning about his new keel. Indeed, reports surfaced last week that the Americans tried unsuccessfully to get the Dutch to reveal details of the design. Lexcen snaps: "They would flash...