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Armistead added that Harvard does not want a "great big concert to draw a lot of people and disturb the general neighborhood...
...initiation fee of about $150 and monthly dues of about $30--continued to get exclusive use of the land (which for several decades has been surrounded by a high chain-link fence) through the '60s, Harvard considered the site for several different proposals, including two for a parking lot or museum...
...Anderberg, 40, the gavel-pounding auctioneer and co-owner of Miller Livestock Sales Co. in Miller, S. Dak., business this summer has been altogether too good. Since June, Anderberg has sold nearly 5,000 head of cattle per week to packers, feed-lot owners and out-of-state cattlemen, almost five times the average during a normal summer. But business is not normal anywhere in South Dakota this summer. Parched by the worst drought in 42 years, the prairies are yellow and burnt, and at least half of the state's oats, wheat and barley cash crops have been...
Still, dispirited ranchers continue bringing their cattle to auction each week. As Ron Nelson, a cattleman up from Iowa to look over the South Dakota stock, observed recently in Miller, "If this were the first year of the drought, a lot of these boys would take a loan, buy some hay and hold on. But it's been too bad, too long...
...breathing space." Every weekend he, his wife Ann, his son Johan, 11, and his daughter Osa, 7, escape to the family's 600-acre farm at Starfors. Ironically, the farm is one of Wall's few money-losing enterprises. But, says the executive, "it's a lot of fun, and it helps me hold on to my roots...