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...bumper crops expected in Oklahoma, Texas and the Plains states. Though wheat prices rose a bit on the Chicago Board of Trade last week, at a time when they normally would be falling, traders were worried not about the St. Helens eruption but about drought in North Dakota...
...more serious objection is that Hill has overstated Sioux individualism, extolling "the language of the ego" and depicting the Lakota as free from all restraints. Complains Tom Simms, a non-Indian who teaches on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota: "She takes a communal, family-oriented society and turns it into an individualistic society to the point where anyone can do anything he pleases." Hill, a friend and ardent admirer of the radical individualist Ayn Rand, has been accused of projecting Rand's notions onto the Sioux. One critic headlined his review of Hanta Yo, "Ayn Rand Meets Hiawatha...
Newspaper groups have an energetic defender in Neuharth, a wiry (5 ft. 7 in., 150 lbs.) imp with an athletic walk, a lopsided grin and a supremely self-confident air. Born and raised in South Dakota, he made a name for himself at the Miami Herald, a Knight (now Knight-Ridder) paper, where he rose from reporter to assistant managing editor in four years, and later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears...
...time is mid-1983. Minutes after early-warning satellites pick up the launching of enemy missiles against the U.S., the Pentagon 's National Military Command Center flashes out the presidential order for a counter strike. The aging squadrons of B-52s from bases in North and South Dakota roar into the air. Later, while flying over North Pole ice sheets approximately 1,500 miles from their objectives, each bomber drops a deadly load of up to 20 cruise missiles. Like oversize model aircraft, these small unmanned jets skim at 500 m.p.h. only 50ft. above the ocean. Finally, hedgehopping their...
...annual basis for the first $500 and 12% on everything above that. But banks are now paying as much as 19% to borrow the money they lend. Citibank, the nation's second largest financial institution, has threatened to incorporate all its Visa and MasterCard business in South Dakota, where bank cards may charge as much as 24%, unless New York raises the level of interest that can be charged. Chicago's First National Bank is instituting a $20 fee for the previously gratis Visa card. Such fees may enable banks to weed out unused cards, which now represent...