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...importance of forecasts varies by locale. In Los Angeles, for example, KNXT's Bill Keene claims that "you can call for fair weather every day of the year, and you'll be 92% accurate." In Florida, where weather is a vital concern to citrus growers as well as vacationers, who delight in hearing how their neighbors are freezing back home WTVT in Tampa airs 70 minutes of forecasts daily. On one occasion, WTVT interrupted Walter Cronkite's Evening News to show five water spouts forming in the bay. In Boston, Don Kent styles his program...
...floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel: "'Welcome,' I say to them. They are fighting for us. Is anyone else...
...play get satisfaction from the accomplishments of the starters. "It is the people that give meaning to the time you spend on it," says the injured Burns, who still faithfully attends every practice. All he can do is take practice snaps from Weiss and semi-manage the citrus fruit pill distribution, but he treasures the sense of belonging. This spirit, it is important to point out, extends beyond this room to the whole senior class. The players all feel cose to each other, and there are no cliques, such as hurt Harvard two seasons ago. Underclassmen are accepted...
During peace-time, his work was agricultural and manual. Moving to Ayeleth with his family in 1952, he spent several years in its fish-ponds, sloshing waist-deep in water, hefting loads of squirming carp. Then he transferred to supervising the citrus orchards. He spent long days pruning dead limbs off grapefruit trees, or pacing the orchards' endless rows with a sprayer...
Nehemiah has made the best of two worlds, but he has also made a choice about which he prefers. When he leaves his secretariat, he wants to return to the citrus orchard. More important, he has not pushed his children toward higher education. All bright, his three sons--aged 17, 19, and 24--did well in the kibbutz high school which serves three other settlements in the region. But only the 19 year-old has matriculated for university admission, and he probably won't go. A farmer does not need four expensive years of college. The oldest, tall dark...