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...combines are used for only a few days during harvest. So farmers turn to combine cutters, also jeeringly known as "wheaties," who hire themselves out, along with their families and their combines. Small is a custom cutter, one of several thousand men who begin their summer combine run in mid-May, cutting down in Texas, and then follow the rhythm of the ripening wheat up through Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, the Dakotas and Montana...
...magazine devoted to the pastime, sees "an increased sophistication and appreciation of kites as an art, a science and an adult sport." An estimated 150 million kites will be sold this year. People turn out in ever greater profusion for such events as the Great Boston Kite Festival in mid-May and the Smithsonian Institution's March Kite Carnival in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., kite-ins are sponsored by towns, school systems, civic groups, museums and radio stations (notably, and naturally, Chicago's WIND...
Meanwhile, David Bowie, the man who fell to earth, will fall into the Garden sometime in early May. Also be on the lookout for Lou Reed, who'll be coming to the Paradise in mid-May...
Radcliffe College will select four centennial scholars in mid-May as "part of the effort to highlight what Radcliffe stands for and the students who represent that ideal," A. Simone Reagor, director of the Radcliffe Forum, said Monday...
...Fahd, is on Carter's future Middle East guest list. Peres, who became Israel's acting head of government when Yitzhak Rabin stepped down because of a family financial scandal (TIME, April 25), is expected to lead the Labor Party to a victory in Israel's mid-May general elections despite the Rabin embarrassment. In Tel Aviv last week, Peres stressed the complications involved in trying to hold Geneva talks this year. He agreed with Carter that no talks would be infinitely better than unsuccessful talks. He also warned that if the talks were begun but soon...