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...their car. A fire incinerates four others, their lone escape route sealed by cinder blocks. When a rancher named Clem Anderson gets his coffin in the mail, its meaning is clear. But after a few sleepless weeks, Clem forgets to worry. Authorities find his body lying in a ditch near his overturned jeep. A razorsharp wire strung between a tree and a telephone pole has severed his head as Clem drove down his ranch road at dusk...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Breakfast Epiphanies | 9/27/1980 | See Source »

...neat stone wall graces the entrance to Freeman Field Industrial Park in the otherwise rustic small town of Seymour (pop. 13,100), about 70 miles southeast of Indianapolis. But in the park, there is a dry, mud-caked ditch, and the trees along its banks are dead. Inside a wire fence, an acrid scent brings tears to visitors' eyes. Some of the tidily stacked barrels bear household names: General Electric, Dow Chemical, Shell Oil, Monsanto. Paint sludges collect in sticky red and green pools on the porous ground, and such chemicals as arsenic, benzene, toluene, trichloroethylene and naphthalene ooze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poisoning of America | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...essay is the ditch-digging occupation of writing. Ishmael Reed...

Author: By Fred Setterberg, | Title: DITCH DIGGERS | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

...executive committee, chaired by C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law, will continue its pursuit of qualified scholars this year. When it was established last autumn in what was termed a "last ditch" or "emergency" attempt to salvage Afro-Am, the committee was given three chief tasks...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...executive committee, chaired by C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law, will continue its pursuit of qualified scholars this year. When it was established last autumn in what was termed a "last ditch" or "emergency" attempt to salvage Afro-Am, the committee was given three chief tasks...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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