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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contracted rheumatic fever when he was twelve. His resulting weakness drew his father's alternating scorn and uninterest. His uncle, Joseph French, a recreation official and Little League coach in Panama, became a kind of foster father, taking the boy to ball games and encouraging him as he grew stronger to use his emerging athletic talents...
Sense of Relief. After taking office in January, Brown grew increasingly impressed with the tremendous advances in cruise-missile technology. While he continued to believe that the U.S. should have an effective manned-bomber force, he finally concluded that the B-1 was not indispensable and that the modified B-52 option would do the job as effectively. According to an associate, Brown also quickly picked up signals from Carter about which way the President was leaning. In any event, Powell said, "when the President and Brown sat down, it was clear that each knew the other's point...
...other investors, he's made himself rich. Guccione concedes that Hefner made skin magazines successful and quasi-respectable by photographing not tarts but the wholesome-looking girl next door. He patronizes Hefner for not moving with the times, for not seeing that the girl next door grew up, "is no longer uptight about nudity," and thus in Penthouse is pictured enjoying her own sensuality. As a photographer himself, Guccione is the best in the business at the narrow craft of what he calls "romanticizing the sexual encounter"; since the mystery used to be in what was concealed...
...relatives and prison associates for seven years. He found fellow convicts who described Ray as a racist. They claimed Ray had often talked in prison about getting the man whom Ray called "the big nigger." To McMillan, Ray may have been a bumbler as a thief, but he grew shrewd in the ways of prison life and earned much money dealing in drugs and other contraband behind the walls. McMillan claims Ray sent about $6,500 out of prison from such earnings-and that this money later largely financed his travels as a fugitive (TIME...
Some farmers are planning to feed some of the excess wheat to livestock. But that would further lower the price of corn, the principal animal feed, by reducing demand. Farmers have planted almost 84 million acres of corn, about the same as last year, when they grew a record 6.2 billion bu. Growers are concerned that the huge crop will cause corn prices to fall well below their current level of $2.35 per bu., which is nearly 20% lower than last year's price. Of all the nation's farmers, the best off are the growers of soybeans...