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...Such controls range from rules requiring farmers to leave some land fallow to acreage allotments directing them as to what and how much to plant. "If you can't feed and clothe yourself, your nation's at risk," says Arkansas Congressman and rice farmer Marion Berry. "Farming is a dadgum hard life, and we need folks to keep doing...
Dick Bass, a Texan who salts his speech with darlin' and dadgum, was 51 years old and clueless about expedition climbing when he decided to summit Mount McKinley in 1981. Bass, the owner of Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, had no idea McKinley was among the hardest U.S. climbs. He made the decision to brave the elements after a particularly tough employee pronounced that he would never cut it on the mountain. Bass vowed to prove her wrong. "I didn't even know how to put a tent up," he says. But off he trudged, defiantly...
...problem, in my opinion, is that we started every dadgum first down at first-and-15. You can’t jump offsides six damn times and expect them not to understand long-yardage situations...
...Mifflin awarded its fellowship of $5,000 for this first novel, and has trumpeted it as a major publishing event ranking with Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. The publishers must be funnin'. Unwittingly, Berry Morgan, a 47-year-old Mississippi housewife, has produced the dadgum laughingest parody of magnolia-and-plantation fiction to come out of the South since Marse Robert surrendered at Appomattox. Her passel of lil ole psychopathic dimwits seems to have been spawned in a high-rent district of Tobacco Road. When Pappy Ingles, the hard-drinkin', ruttin' hero, tries...
Computers & Jumpers. Contestants raced around a six-leg, 10¾-mile course, won points according to the Olympics scoring system, so involved that Texas' Albert Fay complained, "You need a dadgum computer to find out where you stand." Olympic Champion O'Day won one race, was disqualified in the next when he failed to hear the recall horn after a false start, wound up a woeful twelfth in the competition. Norway's Crown Prince Harald was so eager that he beat the gun in the last race, thus costing himself a chance for second place overall instead...