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...plans that primarily affect their home districts. Huge amounts of money could be saved by eliminating the many wasteful projects that are put forth solely to enhance a lawmaker's image at home. Issues could then be settled on their merit rather than for re-election purposes. Neal Rohrer Kingsburg, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Things are little better in California, which produces nearly half of America's fruits and vegetables. The Golden State's farm exports dropped 28% from 1981 to 1983, to $3 billion. Bob and Kathleen Hamada, who grow plums and seedless grapes for raisins on 100 acres in Kingsburg in the San Joaquin Valley, are typical of hard-pressed California farmers who have decided to call it quits. The Hamadas have been trying to sell their farm since mid-1983 but so far have attracted only nibbles. Kathleen, 23, has taken a part-time job as a cashier in a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Grapes of Wrath | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

...Kingsburg, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1972 | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...taught for 30 years in the high school and town of Kingsburg, Calif., which Rafer Johnson has now made famous, I am overjoyed at TIME'S recognition of this remarkably fine young man. However, lest one minor incident recounted in TIME'S story leave an unfair impression of the people of Kingsburg, may I testify that any drawing of a color line is most uncharacteristic of Kingsburgers generally. There Rafer has always been accepted on terms of his worth alone-as a responsible leader in grammar and high school, as an able and dignified president of the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1960 | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...late coach Red Sanders, who saw in Johnson a future brilliant tailback in U.C.L.A.'s single-wing formation. Freshman Johnson improved fast enough in the decathlon to win the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, celebrated by scoring 7.985 points at a welcome-home meet in Kingsburg-thereby breaking Mathias' world record by 98 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Do a Little Better | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

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