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Michael Griffin Aberdeen, S. Dak...
...tangy aroma of burning eucalyptus logs hung in the air. Only a few flurries of snow have dusted the highest mountains of New England, though by last week the first real blast of winter had struck the Rocky Mountain and upper Plains states. Inhabitants of Rapid City, S. Dak., glided through the streets on skis after the storm dropped up to three feet of snow from California as far as the Great Lakes...
...wife Fran, 43, is somewhat in the background; the Benedict family is a decided patriarchy. A farmer's daughter, she worked as a stewardess for Braniff Airlines and met Pat during a layover in Fargo, N. Dak.; a sister of Pat's who worked at the hotel where Fran stayed introduced them. Fran is the secretary of Benedict Farms and does the bookkeeping. During planting and harvesting seasons she also runs the farm's communications network, relaying messages by private FM radio band between Pat's pickup truck, the other machines in the fields and the outside world?meanwhile whipping...
FMCA held its Grand National Rally last week at the Minnehaha County fairgrounds outside Sioux Falls, S. Dak. The motor homer's odyssey was officially dubbed the Great Plains Buffalo Roadeo, a name explicable only because 1) a sizable surviving herd of buffalo can be visited a few miles away (it had few visitors), and 2) there was an authentic rodeo for the road runners. The rally attracted some 7,500 people and 2,078 motor coaches, many bearing names such as It's a No Bus, Jackass Flats, Big Debt, Stick It Inn and Daddy...
...being used by industry. Anheuser-Busch employs sun heat for some beer pasteurization, Campbell's Soup to heat water to wash its cans, Tropicana to steam-process its orange juice. Solar energy provides heat or hot water or both in a visitors' center at Mount Rushmore, S. Dak., Disney World's office block in Orlando, an Atlanta public school, and urban cooperatives in Lower Manhattan...