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...Minnesota Farmer Alan Larsen had reason to be truly thankful on Thanksgiving. As members of his family sat down to a holiday feast last week, they could take some pride and satisfaction in this year's harvest. The 700 acres of corn and soybeans surrounding the Larsen homestead near Heron Lake (pop. 783) yielded a bountiful crop, and 700 head of cattle sold for good prices. Larsen's earnings are up, his indebtedness down. ! "Two years ago I was badly stressed," recalls Larsen, 31. "Now things look a lot better...
Classes started in late September, using space provided by Sears. The training program's director, Elizabeth B. Heron '77, is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...summer of 1962, Robert Heron Bork, then 35, resigned his $40,000-a-year junior partnership in Chicago's largest law firm, loaded his wife and three small children into their Chevrolet convertible and drove east to a $15,000 job teaching law at Yale. Although some of his partners were shocked, his intimates understood. "He told me he didn't want to spend his life practicing law and cash in at the end, leaving nothing but a trail of depositions, briefs and money," recalls Economist John McGee, a friend from those Chicago days. "He wanted to leave something enduring...
...Supreme Court nomination last year, choosing Antonin Scalia, Bork's close friend and former appellate-court colleague. Seeing that Bork was bored by much of the appeals-court work, friends suspected that he was ready to quit the bench. But that restlessness vanished abruptly last week when Robert Heron Bork, 60, finally was handed his long awaited opportunity...
Last year, after seeing two birds I could not identify (a great blue heron and a yellow warbler), I went out and bought A Field Guide to Birds. Since then, my social life has become a shambles, my budget goes to the sport, and my mother refuses to drive with me because I watch for birds instead of watching the road...