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...resentful, nihilistic youth who see no future and no present worth the trouble. Prisons are the state's sole growth industry. "More prisons were being built in California," Barich writes, "than anywhere else in the world. Frequently, they were built on farmland stripped of its value, gone to ... hardpan. Corporate farmers, the titans of agribusiness, often sold the dead land to the state for a handsome score." Go West, young man, and get locked up. Or be a prison guard...
Most of the fringe rice farmers have stopped trying to scratch a living out of the hardpan topsoil in the Texas Gulf Coast area. Now even Jay Anderson, 57, whose grandfather came to Texas from Illinois 87 years ago to build a highly successful farm operation, has lost money for two years in a row. "I've never seen so much gloom and doom in the rice belt," he says. "There's no light in the tunnel...
...quiet was broken only by the sound of an aging Studebaker slowly making its way along Rose Garden Lane, a romantically misnamed country road north of Phoenix. The car stopped on a deserted stretch of flat hardpan, screened by a few cacti and greasewood shrubs, and its five occupants got out: four young Negroes and a short, once-paunchy white man in a brown suit that was now much too big. Samuel L. Resnick, 61, a retired jeweler, looked around and squashed a Marlboro into the sand. He had an appointment with death. He knew...
With prospects for a winning season having increased with wins last week over Williams and Wesleyan, it seems a shame that the varsity squad must play on an unkempt, windswept, sloppy hardpan like the Business School field. Through lacking the tradition which shrouds college football, college soccer, played under decent conditions, could easily prove what a first-rate sport...
Light Out. Of all the shadowy figures in the Kremlin, Molotov is the man the world knows most about. In person, he is a small, unprepossessing, pigeon-toed man with golden pince-nez and the hardpan face of a gravedigger. Looking into his eyes, wrote British Diplomat Harold Nicolson, "is like looking into a refrigerator when the lights have gone...