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...summers are short here, and the fall begins early. Thousands of acres of blueberries are being harvested in the fields, and Washington county, the world's largest blueberry producer, must complete the task before the first frost hits some cold night in September...
Petroleum is a fuel for all seasons-but the U.S. does not have enough of it for any season. That fact was brought home to Americans last week in jolting fashion. Before the frost was on the pumpkin, federal officials had begun warning of icicles in the bedroom next winter because of a general energy shortage...
...years in existence. Presiding over the trial was a 68-year-old federal judge who came out of semiretirement in Utah to decide one of the most complex antitrust cases ever and who backed up his instructions to the opposing computer-firm attorneys by quoting Poet Robert Frost to them...
Last week Judge A. Sherman Christensen chose a path that for both sides may well, as Frost once said, have "made all the difference." In a decision that reverberated throughout the computer industry, stock market and financial community, he found that IBM had engaged in "sophisticated, refined, highly organized and methodically processed" efforts to force Telex out of the peripherals market. For damages, he awarded the struggling firm the largest antitrust judgment ever rendered in the U.S.-$352.5 million. Moreover, Christensen ordered IBM to revise drastically some of its business policies in ways that are designed to allow other computer...
...Robert Frost wrote: "Only where love and need are one, and life is play for mortal stakes, is the deed ever really done for heaven's and the future's sakes." Marx said it would happen only when there are no painters, no landlords, no students, but only people, who among other things paint, keep house and study...