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Still, the river's rising waters took their toll. By week's end the flood had claimed 20 lives, routed 25,000 people from their homes and swamped 7,300,000 acres of rich farm land. At least 10% of this year's cotton crop and some of the soybean harvest were threatened. Upriver, as waters receded and mopping up began, farmers around West Alton, Mo., found nearly 10,000 acres of crops covered with silt and debris. But for the most part, the upper Mississippi was secure...
...game provided many pro basketball scouts with a last look at the New England portion of this year's college crop before the NBA and ABA drafts coming up tomorrow and Friday...
...women on their knees shearing bits of grass with little spades. "As so often in India, you can look at a scene in two ways," he says: He sees the beautiful harmony of these women with the earth; then he senses that they are forced to scratch a crop from practically barren ground for their livelihood. He discovers similar naturalistic and political significance in most Indian scenes...
...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...
Lately I've been falling in love with barmaids. If you spend the kind of time in bars that I spend in bars, it's bound to happen, sooner or later. That, and also the fact that barmaids are the cream of the crop, relatively speaking, given that I'm no good at mixers. And bars happen to be my idea of socializing. The problem is that barmaids are the most desirable people in bars, because the girls your mother leans on you to meet are precisely the ones who make great cousins, and therefore aren't hanging...