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...unique school day that the Thomson Education Center provides these inner-city kids represents a clear break with the educational past of this historic island. One of the first areas settled in New England, Thomson's Island served as the site of a farm and trade school from the early 1800s until the 1950s. From 1955 to 1974, affluent kids attended Thomson Academy, a private boarding school on the island. Then during the summer of 1974, faced with financial difficulties and with the start of the busing program only a few months away, the academy's board of trustees decided...
...high rollers out there getting ready to mortgage the farm on Harvard against Princeton this weekend in football, keep in mind that Captain Steve Kaseta, Charlie Kaye, and Russ Savage, three-fourths of the Crimson defensive line, are doubtful starters for Saturday's tilt at the Stadium...
...court decision is forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160 acres for a farmer and each member of his family. The Andrus proposal caused outrage throughout the West. Particularly shaken up were the owners of the enormous "factories of the fields" in areas like California's Imperial Valley, one of the largest food baskets...
Peanut Farmer Carter, however, is troubled by the proposed breakup of some 5,000 farms in the Western states. He owns 2,000 acres of Georgia soil (the land is not affected by the 1902 law, since it is not irrigated by federal projects). Said Carter: "Seventy-five years ago, 320 acres for a husband and wife for irrigated land was all they could handle. Now, with massive development and large machinery, a larger acreage is necessary for an economically viable farm operation. So the law needs to be changed. But," Carter added, for the present...
That, of course, leaves amiable Cecil Andrus in the unenviable position of the Government's main enforcer-caught between the letter of the law and the anger of Western farmers. As a former Governor of Idaho, where a middling potato farm can cover 580 acres, Andrus would ike to see the law changed. "We may ask Congress to amend the language of the 1902 act," Andrus told TIME last week, "but basically the true family farmer has nothing to worry about...