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...with 36 violations of federal statutes, including conspiracy to bribe Congressmen, mail fraud, illegal campaign gifts, and failure to register as an agent of the South Korean government. Hinting that more indictments might be coming, Attorney General Griffin Bell suggested coyly, "We'll have to see what the harvest will bring...
...auto industry, is, naturally, being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
Indeed, autumn deserves a hymn-and it has received far less tribute than it deserves. True, some mixed notices have come in over the centuries. Horace slandered autumn as a "dread" period-"harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn...
...Harvest 1977 has been a time of paradox for American farmers: a season of too much and too little. In the Northwest and parts of the Midwest and central California, many grain growers were staggering under the effects of the worst drought in decades (see map page 18). Yet in most of the rich cornfields of the Central U.S. and the sweeping grain belt of the Great Plains, the rain came when it was needed. The land responded generously-and now Jimmy Carter's Administration is grappling with the problem of what to do with the immense bounty...
...that his Uncle Billy has resigned his duties at the warehouse to go on the celebrity circuit, Chip Carter, 27, is running the show. The harvest is just beginning, and Chip will purchase about $4 million worth of peanuts from farmers in the area, then help handle the processing and marketing. At the end of the day, he returns home to Wife Caron and six-month-old James Earl Carter IV. Trying "to work things out" in their strained marriage, the couple are living for the moment in Rosalynn and Jimmy's ranch house at 1 Woodland Drive. Though...