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Welcome rains came to parts of the Midwest and South last week, soaking parched reservoirs, saving some thirsty crops and providing water for swimming pools and lawn sprinklers -but no such fortune befell the West and Southwest. There drought stubbornly persisted like a biblical plague, withering corn and wheat, drying up horse and cattle water holes, kindling brush and forest fires (including some 400 in California), and cutting back on water and energy supplies for about 30 million Americans...
Already the obstinate drought has wrought profound changes in the lives of residents of the still-seared areas. The cost to Colorado's agricultural industry has risen to more than $300 million, and many towns have introduced water rationing. Denver officials have rigidly restricted lawn watering to three hours every third day by threatening violators with fines. Water consumption in June and July dropped 28% from a prior five-year average for the same period. Typically, Denver Lawyer Tim Segar says he and his wife spurn dinner parties because it is their sprinkler night: "Friends also...
...Southern couples on countless porches of a summer evening. The twilight air is heavy, but the Carters, relaxing in blue jeans and sports clothes after the day's work, seem not to notice. "I like this balcony," muses the President, looking beyond the green sweep of the South Lawn and the Softball game in progress on the Ellipse to the great monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. "I often come out here at 6:30 in the morning, and on Sunday mornings we read the pa pers out here. It is beautiful. After sup per, after a banquet...
...Wife Caron and five-month-old James Earl Carter IV-the most extended family to dwell in the Executive mansion since the expansive days of the Franklin Roosevelts. On a recent Saturday night, the President and First Lady volunteered to baby-sit. "Jimmy pushed the baby around the South Lawn," Rosalynn says, "and while we played tennis the baby was in his carriage beside the court...
...supported by a group of painters, musicians and writers, including Joan Miró, Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen and Eugène Ionesco. Meanwhile, Renault has started to bury the concrete base and central basin of the monument. They plan to turn the 2,150-sq.-yd. area into a lawn...