Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CROPS. Even some farmers are speculating in a way. Last year Illinois Farmer Elliott Y. Johnson, 51, earned 50% more than in 1972 because the price of the produce he sold more than doubled. Soybeans, for example, rose to $8.60 per bu., from $3.65. Johnson held back more than half his harvest for sale this year, when prices could go still higher. Meanwhile, he plans to buy a new $19,000 tractor and make expensive improvements on his grain elevator. "Now," Johnson chuckles, "is a real good tune for a farmer to be paying off his debts...
...stone church of St. Michel in the tiny French village of Rodlinghem is full this Sunday morning. A strapping, red-bearded farmer named Gilbert, 22, leads the choir and congregation in the first hymn. As the notes die, 28-year-old Jean-Paul, a wiry, lean-faced legal clerk standing at the sanctuary lectern, launches into a short homily on the meaning of Lent, likening the penitential season to an automobile overhaul. After more songs and the reading of the Gospel, Pierre, 66, a sturdy, gray-haired retired farmer, leaves his pew and walks to the tabernacle. There he removes...
...spent the past three years interviewing Americans about their jobs. He began in Chicago, where he is the host of a daily radio program. There he interviewed an aging waitress, a receptionist, a barber. In Indiana, he talked with a strip miner. In Kentucky, a farmer. In Lordstown, Ohio, a union leader at the General Motors assembly plant...
...This is Ames, Mister"..."Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."...); a classic Godard. Everybody knows these films, you can hardly go wrong no matter what you see this week, and the real attraction of the week is Cagney on T.V., so I'll leave space for Farmer Briney. A few oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John...
Died. Lucius Holsey Pitts, 58, influential black educator and civil rights leader; of a heart attack; in Augusta, Ga. As more and more black students enrolled in predominantly white universities, Pitts, the son of a tenant farmer, defended the role of traditionally black institutions. In his ten years as president of Miles College, which serves Birmingham's black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles...