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Spending by businesses to modernize the office, however, has so far been extremely low. Each American farmer works with an average of $52,000 worth of such labor-saving machinery as tractors, combines and milking machines. The average American factory worker is supported by about $25,000 in capital investment in everything from computerized assembly lines to forklifts. Office workers, on the other hand, are aided by a paltry $2,000 in capital investment; that often amounts to little more than a telephone, a typewriter and a photocopy machine. Such offices will soon be as antique as those with stand...
...coot (Richard Farnsworth), a wisdom-of-the-ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons, now threatens to become a movie star. His whip...
...Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...
...prime concern of the election season is not the fine points of energy policy, or even the wisdom of John Anderson's call for a 50?-per-gal. gasoline tax, but how to pay this winter's heating-oil bill. Meanwhile, Roger Christensen, an Ogden, Iowa, hog farmer, finds wild gyrations in interest rates to be his trouble. He finances poultry, pork and corn production with variable interest rate bank loans, and consequently no longer knows what his overhead will be from one season to the next. Says he: "I don't think the average voter...
Charlotte Street shocked President Carter. "Here was this farmer from Georgia," commented Edgar Cordona, a South Bronx Community leader, "who came from a world of beautiful scenery, fishing ponds, to see that he is president of something unbelievable in the most powerful nation on earth...