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...century later the cause of the small farmer is still alive. Curiously enough, the major source of controversy is a law passed six years after the Populist heyday, the Reclamation Act of 1902. This legislation created a federal Reclamation Service to build dams, reservoirs, and canals to irrigate dry lands in 17 western states; today approximately 12 million acres are irrigated by federally stored and transported water. The Act also contained provisions limiting ownership of federally irrigated farm land to 160 acres per family member, and requiring that owners of irrigated land live within 50 miles of their farms...
...theater, and they love rock music and fantasy. That inescapable fact has led to an obvious conclusion, and the result is four blockbusting rock-fantasy musicals for 1978: The Wiz, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Hair and Grease. In fact, not since the '40s, the heyday of the movie musical, have so many horns been tooted or so many dollars been spent to put movies and music together. "The old musicals worked because they were contemporary in their time," says Producer Robert Stigwood, who is backing two of the new ones, Grease and Sgt. Pepper...
...cent of the voters solidly behind them), the Socialists are less troubled by the split than some of the Communists. They reason that Marchais eventually will have to compromise with Mitterand if he wants to enter the government, but they retain a sense of acute disappointment, especially after the heyday of last summer which convinced everyone that France would have a government of the left in 1978. "We had everything going for us last spring and summer," a 19-year old student and Socialist Party member from Marseilles explained last week, "but then the party leaders made mistakes. They refused...
...signs of decay are almost universal. The 1,250-room Fontainebleau Hotel-so haughty in its heyday that Comedian Alan King joshed that it charged him $25 a day, not for accommodation but merely to use its name -was sold early this month in bankruptcy court. Next door, the Eden Roc has just emerged from years in receivership. Once it featured entertainers like Harry Belafonte and Wayne Newton; this winter its "headliners" will be its own singing waiters. At least three other hotels are tangled in bankruptcy proceedings; vacant stores dot the island, and even the members of the world...
...enthusiasm, albeit a little oddly--with a sincerity that caught the fancy of all who watched him. And the fans flocked by the tens of thousands to see him, to cheer their hero. The oldtimers said they had never seen anything like it, not even Babe Ruth in his heyday had drawn such mobs. Baseball was still the great pastime it had always been, and the crowd loved the feeling...