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Letter of the Law. How Carry Nation conceived her passion against drink is a matter for more sobersided. chroniclers than Taylor. Some ascribe it to her grandfather's habit, back on the Kentucky homestead, of swilling brandy before the cock crowed; others to the fact that Carry's first husband, Dr. Charles Gloyd, was a professional drunk who reeled down the aisle to marry her and, in the few years left before they embalmed him, never sobered...
...farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry is, not surprisingly, in clover. Near Kamsack, Sask., Farmer Paul Strilaiff farms the homestead where his Russian immigrant parents settled at the turn of the century. He has done so well sending wheat back to Russia that last fall he walked into the office of a Kamsack implement dealer, placed an order for four swathers, six tractors and eleven combines-and wrote out a check...
...MONROES (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Five orphaned youngsters, from six to 18, struggle to survive and establish a homestead in the Wyoming wilderness of the 1870s. Michael Anderson Jr. and Barbara Hershey head the doughty band...
...four strangers," says Joseph, "you couldn't insult each other the way we do. There is no malice, and we get it all out of our system. It's very healthy." All members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the brothers practice 20 hours a week at their old homestead in the Germantown section of the City of Brotherly Love. "When things get too violent," explains Robert, "Mama has to come in from the kitchen to mediate." There is nothing, they say, like Mama's eggs in purgatorio (fried eggs smothered in sautéed tomatoes) and a spot...
...Wall crisis, turned it from a relatively small outfit into a major arm of U.S. airpower with 1,400 jet fighters, its own tankers and transports, and the ability to perform any tactical mission from the 1964 Congo missionary rescue to ground support in Viet Nam; of cancer; at Homestead Air Force Base...