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...vegetable patch, with a little meager grazing land for a few cows. The families in the scattering of wooden houses and log cabins have a median income of about $6,000 a year. To eke out a living, many men have had to work outside the Gap, some, like Gale Webb, the father of six children, journeying 50 miles a day to Johnson City, across the state line in Tennessee. There are other concessions to the modern world in Brumley Gap. TV sets, for instance, and souped-up pickup trucks. Since last May, moreover, a blue APCO work trailer...
...similar shortfall this year. Yale's 1978 deficit was $2 million. Dallas' Southern Methodist University is wrestling with a cumulative deficit of $6 million. "We're caught between the goddam rate of inflation and the miserable performance of the stock market," says University of Chicago Provost Gale Johnson. "Our costs go up, and our endowment goes down. It's a vicious crossfire...
...that give life to crops across India-and take human lives as swollen rivers flood towns (this year's toll: at least 900 dead, 3 million homeless). Reversing themselves after an autumn lull, the winds return, this time from the northeast, carrying cool, relatively dry air. Building to gale force in northeast Asia, they sometimes bring frost to tropical Hong Kong. In Southeast Asia, after sweeping the sea, they bring vital rain...
First Team: JULIE BRYNTESON (Harvard), Sarah Franklin (Dartmouth), SUEST. LOUIS (Harvard), Gale Maschka (Brown), Nnena Odim (Princeton), Lisa Segbarth (Brown), Darcy Fernald) (Brown), Anne Russell (Princeton), WENDY SANDS (Harvard), Kathy Sykes (Dartmouth), Stefi Sanders (Brown...
...with less than a month left, a whopping 40% of the voters surveyed, including 62% of the independents, say they are still undecided. Perhaps the uncertainty stems from the voters' skepticism about the current gale of antitax rhetoric: two-thirds think the candidates' tax-slashing promises are just "a lot of talk...