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...through 18 long years - including 13 straight losing seasons. Now they are the proud holders of the best record in pro football and are play-off bound for the first time. In honor of the Broncos' powerful 3-4 defense, the Orange Crush, Denver bakeries sell orange crushcakes, bumper stickers proclaim HAVE A MERRY CRUSHMAS, and to assure that the wish comes true, Denverites are spraying their Christmas trees orange...
Whether or not they support the strike, farmers are in a fighting mood. Drought has badly hurt many in the Southeast, and two years of bumper harvests around the world have depressed farm prices. The Government estimates that net farm income this year will be $20 billion, down a painful 33% from the alltime high in 1973. The average farm family will earn only $5,300 this year, excluding off-the-farm income. As Washington Rancher Lee McGuire says, "Some farmers are absolutely flat-ass broke." Among the flattest are young farmers who bought their land and machinery...
...order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...
...fight over the shape of the future is even fiercer on the local level than in the state capitals of the Northwest. The battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white...
...slapstick. But in the right mood, he can quote anything out of context for hilarious effect. Outside the witch's gingerbread house a sign reads: THIS STRUCTURE WILL BE TORN DOWN AND REPLACED BY A NEW 44-STORY COOKIE. The back of Santa Claus' sleigh bears the bumper stickers REGISTER COMMUNISTS, NOT FIREARMS! and LET'S GET THE U.S. OUT OF THE U.N. "That's funny," observes a lady as he goads his reindeer skyward. "For some reason, I always thought of him as a liberal...