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...already stopped in Roxbury to pick up the kids. Now it's rolling through Dedham and into the suburb of Walpole, a placid, ordinary community except for the enormous white structure looming in the dusk: a state prison that shares the town's name--a name that signifies everything wrong with prisons in this part of the country...
...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
TIME Bonn Bureau Chief B. William Mader recently joined a squad from the llth Armored Cavalry Regiment on its dawn-to-dusk rounds along a section of the border. His report...
...dominating the country's 6.2 million black villagers. In sensitive areas, the government has herded blacks into "protected villages" in order to cut off food supplies to the guerrillas. International organizations estimate that there are now half a million villagers obliged to live behind barbed wire from dusk to dawn. The tragedy is that the army often cannot differentiate between gunman and civilian-hence the high death rate...
Likewise, the extraordinary 17th century outer robe covered with woven brocade designs of autumnal grasses is intended (so the catalogue notes inform us) to convey the "melancholy, somewhat desolate mood" of "a lonely field at dusk." If this is melancholy, the mood was never more lyrically conveyed. The robe is an anthology of natural observation, with seven types of plants rendered in a marvelously clear, springy line, through gradations of color that result from the separate tinting, part by part, of each of the thousands of silk threads. Where the brown, gray and blue rectangles of the background meet...