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...Midwest. In Dewitt County, Ill., Lester Thorpe went out into his fields of brown stalks and plowed under his 1,100 acres of corn last week. "There's not enough here for seed or to cover the cost of harvesting," he said with a sigh. "Best just to dig it up and forget...
Meanwhile, the search for job leads goes on constantly. Says Michael Hubbard, the Lackawanna center's director: "Only 15% of available jobs are advertised. We have to dig up the other 85%." They were successful in the case of a 42-year-old industrial engineer in Bethlehem's robotics operations. "I could not accept it at first," he said. "I was always above the crowd. Then suddenly I had the props knocked out. It can destroy your confidence in one day." With the support of his wife and Bethlehem's family counseling, he wound up in another...
...director of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, declared that the union's leadership would wait for a full, unconditional amnesty. Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released from detention last November, said that the government's new measures were worse than martial law and would only "dig a wider gulf between the government and the governed...
Earthwatch, a nonprofit scientific research organization based in Belmont, Mass., will send 625 vacationers on expeditions that include a probe of 90-gun H.M.S. Coronation, which sank off Plymouth in 1697, and a dig for Bronze Age artifacts along the Esk River on the Scottish border. Virtually every European country offers at least two or three music festivals, and almost everywhere, every week, there are rumbustious folk festivals, with such attractions as jousting knights, wrestling Tyroleans, strawberry-eating contests, battling bargemen and tootling bands. A country-by-country summary of seasonal highlights...
...defensive. Said outgoing N.E.A. President Willard McGuire: "We've often been accused of speaking to our self-interests, seeking to reduce our work loads or increase our association's membership. That's a lot of malarkey." Shanker might have been warning the N.E.A. not to dig in its heels when he told his own convention, "We are living in dangerous times. Education is under attack...