Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well after sunset. Some blue remains in the darkened Western sky. Jessie can see only the lights of his combines, as one by one they disappear over a hill. "Follow that star," drawls Jessie over the radio. The combines, like tanks on night maneuvers, head west, following Venus, which is low and bright in the sky. "We've got it!" Gary Coleman, driver of the lead combine yells back. He slows his machine, turns and lowers the cutting head into a rich wave of uncut field...
...during harvest. So farmers turn to combine cutters, also jeeringly known as "wheaties," who hire themselves out, along with their families and their combines. Small is a custom cutter, one of several thousand men who begin their summer combine run in mid-May, cutting down in Texas, and then follow the rhythm of the ripening wheat up through Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas and Montana...
...labor were to heed that advice. For all the mistakes they have made, unions are an indispensable force for industrial democracy. No program to control inflation can succeed without the support of labor, which will not be forthcoming unless it has a public-spirited leadership. Unfortunately, if the unions follow their present policies, they can only decline further, to the country's detriment...
Street or the latest Government goof are laced with vinegar and lightened with pixie dust. "I follow the Mencken rule of never saying anything good about a sitting President," he laughs. His standard advice to worriers: "It's just your money, not your life." Rukeyser is addicted to puns and one-liners (sample: "One more week like this and we'll have to call this program Wall Street Wake...
Still, if you want to be a big stud, major laurels can be reaped here. A sampling of the top upperclass varsity athletes follow...