Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bird has ruffled feathers. The avian star is vying for attention with a newcomer on Sesame Street-Dakota Starblanket. Dakota will join the cast in April and May to teach children the meaning of sibling rivalry. "Big Bird represents the child viewer," explains Dakota's mother, Buffy Sainte-Marie, 36, a regular Sesame Street guest. "He and I were friends. I even took him to New Mexico's Taos Indian pueblo to tape a show. Now suddenly here's my baby and my husband, Sheldon Wolfchild. Big Bird feels in the way." The singer originally went...
There are confrontations with 1930s left-wing intellectuals and de facto existentialists of the wartime '40s. There is Jed's marriage to an unnervingly placid girl from North Dakota who dies young of cancer. The longest and best-furnished setting of the novel is Nashville, Tenn., during the postwar years. There Tewksbury teaches at a university, bends elbows with the horsy set and conducts the great love affair of his life. Significantly, it is with a girl from his own home town, now married to a rich sculptor. In Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine...
...practically giving away cattle, the prices are so low," he says. "I'm hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota, a 3,600-acre ranch sold last week for $190 an acre; last June its owner was asking $287 an acre. "I know that ranch is worth more than that," says Banker Howard Peterka of Miller, S.D., "but everyone is overextended. There's no borrowing power around...
...week, wells are going dry. In Virginia, Ill. (pop. 1,800), the town reservoir has only a 30-day supply of water left. Lee Reynolds shut down his car wash. The local Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice...
Miewald pointed out that some South Dakota counties have been declared disaster areas for one reason or another four years in a row. "Are those people in the right line of work?" he asked. "Maybe Mother Nature is trying to tell us something." Americans, Miewald suggested, "might even have to forfeit the sacred right to have a green lawn" when water is scarce for growing wheat. "The era of abundance is over...