Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reckless honesty and his own kind of compound romanticism, which can veer sharply from sentimental to sulfuric at the bend of a lyric. Dylan both mocked and gloried in his informal ordination as a generation's prophet. Young, fully as ambitious in his music, kept closer to the ground than Dylan and sneaked into rock's pantheon like a highwayman...
...vertical integration. Like other growers, he resented having to take his beets for milling to the nearby American Crystal Sugar Co. plant. One reason: the company's officers, then based in Denver, insisted on shutting down the mills on weekends, even during harvest time when beets must be ground up quickly before they rot. Recalls Pat: "We were at the mercy of people a thousand miles away who just were not concerned with our needs." So Benedict, as a director of the Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers Association, organized 1,600 farmers to put up $20 million in cash, borrow...
...from Texas or local high school students. The primary work force is the family: Sons Michael, 20, Blane, 18, Kurt, 13, and Daughters Stephanie, 19, and Lisa, 16. Even eleven-year-old David drives a tractor pulling a harvester that yanks three tons of sugar beets out of the ground every minute. All earn $3 an hour. During the wheat harvest each of them worked eight hours a day in staggered shifts so that some member of the family was in the fields 24 hours a day. Says Pat: "The kids learn that you are paid according to how much...
...parties for neighbors?at which Pat may down a Scotch or two, though his regular drink is beer. But many evenings and weekends are devoted to TV or simply family conversation. The Benedicts are Roman Catholics and regular churchgoers; when St. Cecilia's Church in Sabin burned to the ground two years ago, Pat was elected to help supervise construction of a new building. He is close with his money but has unwound enough in the past few years to buy a Cadillac, several color TV sets and motorcycles for each of his three oldest sons. This year he even...
California Wheat and Barley Grower Ken Lederer, 44, waxes lyrical about the spiritual rewards of farming: "When you see all your work out there on the ground, dependent on so many things you can't control, like the frost, the bugs and the rain, you begin to appreciate how small