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...small vineyard owned by their father, an immigrant from Italy's northern Piedmont. "We had a tractor in the barn, but we didn't have enough money to buy gas," recalls Ernest. "Instead, we used four mules and worked the vineyards seven days a week from daylight to dusk." With the first stirrings of repeal, they dug up $5,900.23 in capital and set out to produce their own wine. They rented a railroad shed for $60 a month, bought a $2,000 grape crusher and redwood tanks on 90-to 180-day terms...
...Some religious groups and small farmers, who use the bright morning hours while the rest of the world sleeps, still lobby for standard time, a position shared perhaps by urban muggers. But some European countries have tried constant daylight time without any sinister agricultural, theological or political results. No time, after all, is really "standard." Since Joshua, no one has discovered a way to stop the sun in its tracks. But daylight time does provide a reasonable method of delay, forestalling that Siberian depression; why not have it year round...
...found "all that crystal-ball stuff, spirit guides, music and the darkened rooms" hard to take. Recently, though, he discovered Jane Roberts, a poet and science-fiction writer, who since 1963 has been a conduit for the spoken words of a personality called Seth. "It's all done in daylight," says...
...crime has become so serious that residents and doctors alike feel besieged. Says Dr. Sol Fleishman, a former medical director: "When I first came, I didn't hesitate to go out on calls even at night. By last year I thought twice before going out in broad daylight...
...crescent that was illuminated by the sun. With the aid of Venera's photometer, Soviet scientists could determine that about two-thirds of the solar radiation striking Venus penetrates the thick cloud cover and reaches the surface. Thus there is a long (about 116 earth days) period of daylight as well as a lengthy nighttime on the surface of Venus, which revolves on its axis only once every 243 earth days. Surprisingly, the surface does not cool during the long period of darkness; the "greenhouse effect" of the planet's atmosphere (consisting largely of carbon dioxide) keeps heat...