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...Dakotas southward to Texas, from Kansas east to parts of Ohio, the most baleful weather in a generation is raising the specter of economic disaster for Midwest farmers and the businessmen who depend on them. The big drought is daily diminishing what had been estimated would be a bumper yield of corn, soybeans and other feed grains. Crops of spring wheat, oats and barley are also being reduced...
...losses were against Courageous. Intrepid's ebullient supporters have responded by plastering their cars and yachts with KNOCK ON WOOD bumper stickers. There are even some Frenchmen who may be smiling too. Only one foreign boat can become the official challenger, and to earn that designation the favored Southern Cross will have to beat France, a wooden vessel owned by French Bic Pen Tycoon Baron Marcel Bich...
...Bumper crops of many farm products could still drive down some retail food prices this year-but in view of the widening spread between farm costs and retail food prices, the consumer would be wise not to count...
John Dalton, 42, began his political career by passing out bumper stickers for his father Ted, a longtime Virginia state senator and now a federal district judge. While pursuing his law career, the younger Dalton rose through G.O.P. ranks to become chairman of the Virginia Young Republicans, state Republican treasurer and then general counsel. After three terms in Virginia's house of delegates and one as state senator, Dalton won a three-way race for the lieutenant governorship last year. A moderate from southwest Virginia's farm country, he will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for Governor...
...where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power, and with it a renewed sense of pride. Some Navajos these days drive cars with bumper stickers proclaiming DINE BIZEEL (Navajo Power). In the towns that ring the reservation, this new assertiveness has been happily greeted by sympathetic Anglos; but others have reacted violently. Last week TIME'S David DeVoss visited the Navajos and filed this report from Farmington...