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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough money as a sign painter and square dance fiddler to keep his family from starving to death. Pampa is an oilboom town gone bust, a grim, Depressionera morning-after the gala twenties, when the oilmen and farmers came in droves. Now the money and water are gone, the land parched and worthless. All that's left is the dust--huge, billowing black clouds of destruction and death rumbling across the prairie. Production designer Michael Haller's re-creation of a Pampa dust-storm stunningly conveys the awesome power that often terrorized the dust bowl's inhabitants. When Woody sings...
Harvard built the Holyoke Center complex in the early 1960s with an eye toward housing the administration. The University took control of commercial buildings already on the land, and put final touches on the complex...
...from the original Spanish--but Eddy restores them. He simultaneously manages to assert his power and suggest his vulnerability. In his struggle with Antigona, his voice assumes the paternalism of an absolute leader, the cruelty of a tyrant and the impersonality of one that has been broadcast throughout the land...
Stumping Scientists. In southwestern Minnesota, in the town of Ivanhoe, Ray Heard, a beef and dairy farmer, figures that he has lost $30,000 in the past three years and is approaching bankruptcy. This year, as his grazing land turned to dust, he spent $10,000 on hay. "We're practically giving away cattle, the prices are so low," he says. "I'm hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota...
Beyond such techniques to reduce the dire consequences of future droughts, University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Miewald asked more fundamental questions about the way the nation uses its land. "What really is the problem in Marin County?" he asked his scientific colleagues. "Is it too little water? Or is it too many people? Has the area been developed beyond the capability of its resources to support people?" He suggested that perhaps people should live where water is available rather than haul water to where they want to live...