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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weather in Montana, all over the wheat belt in fact, has been miraculously moist. Around Circle, Jessie has been cutting 50-bushel-an-acre wheat. Wheat that good bends the stalks and lies close to the ground looking like the matted coat of a golden-haired dog. Heavy wheat is hard to cut, though. The combine has to move slowly, with its cutting head close to the ground. "Ease it up, Roger. Ease it up," radios Jessie to one of his combine drivers. "You're blowing too much grain out of the back." At only $3 a bushel, farmers...
...conscription without representation." While conservative Republicans generally opposed the measure, Democratic liberals strongly favored it. There were some notable exceptions, however. Two G.O.P. presidential hopefuls?Howard Baker and Robert Dole?voted aye. So did onetime Segregationist Strom Thurmond, who needs every black vote he can get in a close reelection campaign in South Carolina. "Thurmond came over," said Civil Rights Activist Joseph Rauh, "and that was the vote that really made the difference...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees?rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
Intercollegiate sports at Harvard are divided into two categories: football, and the rest. If considered separately, tailgating ranks a close second to football in popularity, but most objective observers lump the two together...
Hockey, men's heavyweight crew, basketball and baseball all rate as major sports, but none comes close to football. I mean, where else do you get the chance to sit in the sun all afternoon, yell obscenities about Dartmouth, get totally sloshed, and be considered normal...