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Entrants in the contest for the largest morel came from as far away as South Carolina. The sport is often known as "rooming" or "shrooming"; one ace picker is Jim Goodwin, 45, a construction worker from West Liberty, Ohio, who snapped up 150 morels in a few hours. A novice might be wary of the poisonous cap. However, experts say that Morchella esculenta or the five or six other varieties of the most sought after morels can be clearly identified by their pitted, spongy caps and attached hollow stems. Chilly weather this spring has driven morel prices...
...Peerage (Coward-McCann; $24.95), this means pretty much the landed and oiled gentry; there are more than 100 families in this category in Texas with a net worth of $30 million or more each. Debrett's aristocrats are selected by Georgia Author Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass...
...facade houses an entirely different enterprise. The noisy machines and grease-stained factory floor have given way to offices where engineers huddle over glowing oscilloscopes and secretaries peck quietly at word processors. The woolen mill has been reborn as the headquarters of the Digital Equipment Corp., the second largest computer manufacturer in the world...
Those most directly affected by this economic transformation are the displaced blue-collar workers. They will be hard-pressed to find jobs that even remotely resemble the $25,000-a-year slots in which they manned assembly lines and blast furnaces. The Department of Labor projects that the largest numbers of job openings will be in such low-paying categories as secretaries, nurses' aides, janitors, sales clerks and cashiers (see table). Although the total numbers are not as large, the fastest percentage growth will come in highly technical professions like computer programming and software writing. Those are not skills...
...million limit on the cars they export to the U.S., about 20% of the American market. Detroit is still not satisfied. Iacocca wants the Japanese to be held to 15%. The United Auto Workers are pushing in Congress a "domestic content" bill that would shut the largest Japanese auto manufacturers out of the U.S. market by decreeing that most parts of their cars be made in America. So far, the bill has the support of 148 Congressmen, 16 Senators and, among other interested onlookers, Democratic Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale...