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Guard dogs, wired fields and a crop that blows the mind...
Another bumper crop of question marks sprouts in the backcourt going into tonight's opener. Nate Archibald, who made his debut on stereopticon slides, not bubblegum cards, will try to go another season on his patented collapsible legs, great for summer storage but of questionable value for 48 minutes of pounding up and down the Garden floor. On the other hand, Archibald ranks among the greatest players of the last decade, knows more routes to the hoop than an Eastern pilot does to New York, and passes well enough to have led the unselfish Celts in assists last season...
This year's autumn corn harvest is down 16% from 1979's large crop, and the lower yield has already pushed prices above the $3-per-bu. level, vs. $2.45 for the same period last year. Ranchers, also suffering from the drought and fearing a hike in the price of their prime feedstuff, sent more of their cattle to slaughter earlier in the summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production...
Alec Guinness may have abandoned his Star Wars' light-sword for a more earthly riding crop, but the Force is still with him. In Little Lord Fauntleroy, a CBS-TV movie, he plays the Earl of Dorincourt, a crusty old gaffer gradually softened by his grandson's winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy...
...bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...