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...Late Show - Pat Farmer and Kenny Sheehan, David Letterman stagehands, give Oprah Winfrey Show scripts a deadpan interpretation...
Some along the mountainside survived as the water surged by just below them in the valley. Farmer Valentino Tretter saw the cloud of white dust raised by the torrent and climbed above the valley road to investigate. "Soon after, the mud came across my garden and my barn," he recalled, "I shouted toward the house of the Vinante family, which is a little underneath mine, but in a few moments it was wiped away. Adriano, his wife Pauola and their three children--all are dead...
Prime Minister Robert Mugabe proved last week that he meant to get even with his country's 100,000 whites, especially the 4,400 farmers, for their overwhelming support of former Rhodesian Leader Ian Smith in the general elections four weeks ago. In a move that one disbelieving farmer called "a prime example of cutting off your nose to spite your face," Mugabe dismissed Minister of Agriculture Denis Norman, who is white, from his Cabinet...
...rafters of oak and white pine that predate the Constitution, Babcock reads colonial minidramas. He describes his discoveries with delight: stalls on worn threshing floors that mark a farmer's shift from wheat to cattle; scrawled symbols on a rafter commemorating a son who moved his father's barn; boards, sealing the huge doors of a cavernous Dutch barn, that reveal the date of its sale to a German, who then cut smaller doors...
...weeks ago, I couldn't make the payroll," says Fisher. A onetime Hobart, Ind., poultry farmer, Fisher went to Florida specifically to hunt for underwater fortune. Underwater exploration has been his obsession almost from the age of eleven, when, back in Indiana, he made a homespun diving helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove...