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...dozen federal marshals and FBI agents, the sheriff and three deputies, headed four miles north of town and set up roadblocks. Then they drove a mile down a dirt road to an isolated house that resembled a bunker. There, the nationwide search for Gordon W. Kahl, 63, a retired farmer and militant tax protester, came to a fiery and bloody...
...newly desegregated Alabama high school in 1965, Delores Boyd gave a lot of thought to the civil rights movement and her place in it: "I had a sense that the law had a very significant role in whether the movement would fail or succeed." The daughter of a subsistence farmer whose eight children all went to college, she was no star at the University of Virginia Law School. "But I survived and I learned," says Boyd...
...California and washed out 10 sq. mi. of prime farmland. Farther upstream, in central California's Kings County, rains had already dunked 70,000 acres in floodwater; the runoff now threatens an additional 20,000 acres. "We're down here like a bathtub without a drain," fretted Farmer Don Gilkey, who had 4,000 of his 10,000 acres drowned...
...fourth son of "a farmer, a rower, a very strong man," Ballesteros learned golf from the swing of his brother Manuel, 34, and practiced "on the beach from the age of nine, on the golf course since 15" in Santander, Spain. At 16, Seve turned professional, a handsome boy with a wild talent. His early dedication extended to playing late after dark, an advantage at Augusta this year when a day and a half of rain kept the golfers out past dusk on Saturday, trying to complete the second round in hopes of cramming the last 36 holes into...
...farmer turns over his PIK certificate to AGRI-PIK as security against purchases he wishes to make from dealers on the new company's roster. Those dealers then check the value of the certificate with AGRI-PIK, register the purchase that the farmer is making, and deliver the goods to the farmer. The dealers are, in effect, extending free credit to the farmer, assured that they will be paid when the PIK grain is sold next fall. AGRI-PIK charges manufacturers an enrollment fee of $1,000 to participate in this plan; dealers pay $100. For each transaction, AGRI...