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Dawson's plight is common to the Southeastern U.S. From central Florida to Atlanta to eastern Mississippi, the drought has already doomed such staples as hay and corn, normally harvested this month. The soybean, cotton and peanut crops are all endangered. Parts of the region are suffering their worst water shortage in nearly a quarter of a century. With most of the Far West and large stretches of the Midwest also in the throes of a prolonged dry spell (see map), the acting director of the Department of Agriculture's crop weather reporting service, Lyle Benny, cites...
...foul play was involved in the spectacular amusement-park accident with which the picture promisingly begins. The audience, one step ahead of him as it always is in this movie, knows that sweet-faced youth (Timothy Bottoms) lurking around the wide screen has got more on his mind than cotton candy. He is a highly intelligent psychopath who gets at least as much fun out of making the cops look like fools as he does out of making thrill rides even more thrilling than they were intended to be. It is only a matter of time-too much time...
...burden-which, to Germans especially, it undoubtedly is. Jacob's only reprieve is in his imagination. He tells his niece a fairy tale about a commoner who cures a princess's illness by bringing her what she thinks is a cloud-a pillow-sized mass of cotton (an analogy, perhaps, to Jacob's trying to cure his neighbors by bringing them what they think is hope). The implication, indeed, is that these colorful visions persist amid the gray rubble of the ghetto just as the human spirit persists amid intolerance and oppression. But Jacob the Liar...
...ignored China-an omission that Brzezinski insists will soon be corrected. Still others wrote off the Notre Dame speech as an insubstantial sermon-PIETY STRIKES AGAIN, said Britain's conservative Daily Express, while even the liberal Guardian described the speech as shot through with "obscurities, ambiguities and plain cotton wool...
...most of his youth, Jody Powell lived and worked on a 500-acre cotton and peanut farm in Vienna, Ga. (pronounced Vy-anna), that had been in the family for five generations. Before Jody, Vienna's most notable native son was Democratic Senator Walter George, who held his seat for 34 years; Powell has a hand-me-down shotgun that George once owned...