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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claim to 160 acres of public land, free of charge. More than a century later, the range has become the home of agribusiness conglomerates and huge farms of thousands of acres; the lone homesteader who tilled his quarter section (onefourth of a square mile, which totals 640 acres) has gone the way of the American buffalo...
...movie portrayed them-noisy, brawling scenes of men fighting for the jobs available. No longer. Now longshoremen "badge in" at 7:30 a.m. at local hiring halls by inserting a plastic card into an IBM computer and lounge around for a while. By 9 a.m. the unlucky ones have gone to work; the others can go home to watch TV or moonlight on a second job-and still collect full base pay ($64 per day). That undemanding life is largely the result of a combination of two forces: the rise of container ships, which has greatly reduced the need...
...Though gone from the papers, many of Capp's creations will live on. Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae long ago slipped into American language and folklore, together with the other denizens of Capp's hillbilly heaven, where Mammy Yokum defended her ragtag family and shaky log cabin against the likes of zoot-suited Evil-Eye Fleegle and his triple whammy. Joe Btfsplk and his perpetual cloud rained down bad luck on almost everyone, and the unluckiest ended up in the hands of Freddie the undertaker. The shmoos rolled over dead and oven ready for hungry hoomins...
...Harvard after the Big Green parlayed a sloppy Crimson hand-off into a fumble recovery and its only lead, 7-0, early in the first quarter. When the Dartmouths next looked up, they were trailing, 21-7, and wondering what had gone wrong...
Restaurants near the Yale campus have not experienced any dramatic increases in diners, but grocery stores reported this week their sales have gone up as much as 60 per cent...