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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured his appreciation of such energy and ingenuity, wrote the facts down in his little notebook. Story printed with picture...
When one turns the old pages, the start of World War II is clearly marked. Every contingent of draftees was lined up in front of the Trailways bus that would take them to camp. Their pictures were snapped, their names and the names of their parents faithfully recorded. In the fading volumes those placid, strong young faces form a continuing gallery...
Lagakos also said the center should work withcommunity-based clinical testing. "Communityphysicians are not at the front line of research,yet they are at the front line of treatment," hesaid. We would like to coordinate studies to makesure we are moving forward in the same direction...
...Tuesday's vigil, Myette presented a stark contrast to the fiery rhetoric of Jean Wallace-Benjamin, who addressed the crowd in front of the former school building. In a relatively subdued voice, Myette read a statement thanking the marchers for their support but made little mention of the city-wide controversy...
...used to play a long time ago-when the Bee Gees sang in front of sellout crowds. Since the bigger kids always used to hog the baseball field, we first-graders would have the large field in the back of our school (San Benito in Humacao. Puerto Rico) all to ourselves. There were about 15 of us and every game was Brazil against Argentina. Problem was, everyone wanted to be Pele; no one liked the Argentines...