Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National United Committee to Free Angela Davis provided $2,500 in cash and the $8,500 bondsman's fee toward Angela's bond; the remainder came from a most remarkable source: Rodger McAfee, 33, a white farmer who put up 405 acres of his family's 1,100-acre cooperative farm near Fresno, Calif., as collateral for the remaining $100,000. McAfee said he had given the deed covering the property to the Communist Party's Northern California section a year ago for eventual bonding purposes. "I'm just a working man who agrees with...
...amount, $9.96; two LPs). The cast recording of a 1971 off -Broadway show based on the legend that Joan's life was spared by substituting another girl at the stake. Though hardly an orthodox look at Joan (among other things, she has a love affair with a farmer), Survival comes across well enough on disk, largely because the group Smokerise manages to operate within the rock mainstream (Beatles to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young) and still have something original...
...this particular commune, the pay of a peasant is 30 yuan a month -roughly $12. But the farmer pays only 1 yuan a month in rent, 60 to 80 for cigarettes and, as likely as not, nothing at all for books or magazines; despite the massive literacy campaigns, the majority of peasants are still functionally illiterate. The farmer's children, though, attend the commune school, where elementary math is taught in concrete, even ominous terms. A typical question: "How many guns have four militiamen each armed with two guns...
...well as most newspapers and businesses, opinion may well swing some of the antiMarket M.P.s to the pro side. Norwegian worries focus on a Common Market rule that the waters of any member are open to the fishermen of all. That poses a direct economic threat to the farmer-fishermen of Norway's rich northern fjords and coastal waters. In Brussels, Norwegian negotiators demanded a permanent twelve-mile fishing limit, but finally settled for a ten-year guarantee of exclusive fishing rights along some parts of the coast, a provision that will be subject to review...
...kangaroos-and actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...