Word: farms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this month is designed to revive business confidence, spark more spending on plant and equipment and head off a slowdown in growth that many economists expect late in 1978. Meanwhile, inflation shows signs of moving up again, fueled partly by measures that Carter either initiated or supported, including higher farm price supports and a steeper minimum wage...
Meanwhile, Cousin Hugh Carter, 57, says that his worm-farm business in Plains, Ga., is booming. Sales of the little wrigglers, used by the bucketful as fishing bait, went up 25% after Cousin Jimmy reached the White House, bringing in gross revenues...
...doing variations on his basic themes (the essential trick for long star careers), and he seems to lack the Eastwood-Reynolds drive to take charge of his career by becoming his own producer or director. Instead, he retreats ever more deeply into family life, especially on his Vermont farm. If he can possibly manage it, his second wife, Jill Ireland, is his leading lady ("Playing love scenes with someone you don't love can be hell...
...genius, and his downfall, was recruiting. Harkness could scour the plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan signing up farm boys better than anyone. When asked why he switched from R.P.I. to Cornell, he used to say: "Because it's 90 miles closer to the Canadian border...
...unlikely painter in question was George Stubbs. The son of a Liverpool tanner, Stubbs began drawing human bones when he was only eight years old. Later in life he sequestered himself on a Lincolnshire farm with his "niece," lugged the carcasses of horses into his studio, then flayed and dissected them so he could study their anatomy. Local folk complained that Stubbs made the country round smell like a battlefield. But in 1766, when Stubbs finally published his scrupulous horse drawings, they were recognized as masterly. His paintings, however, were admired mainly by horse lovers, many of them titled. Only...