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...sure like to see what it's like." Many children who inhabit the wheat belt have a secret desire to spend a summer roaming from state to state with the cutters. The Smalls each year employ 14 hired boys (including Byron). The members of the crew live in motel rooms, paid for by the Smalls, eat bountifully of the well-prepared home cooking around the tables in the Smalls' house trailers, and make up to $200 a week. "You know what it would be like to go off and join a carnival?" says one of the boys. "Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Other residents are more sympathetic. One motel owner arranged mooring space in a small canal she owns, and local volunteers helped move the Vietnamese boats there. But after an explosion, parish officials put pressure on her to have them evicted. As in most things, what really matters is how Chalin Perez feels. Father Michael Haddad, who runs a group that coordinates the resettlement of Vietnamese, says, "Perez is quick to enforce the law but slow to be accommodating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: The Legacy of a Parish Boss Lives On | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

When King was shot, Jackson was standing near him outside a second-floor room of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Jackson visited Ray last week in response to one of a series of letters that the prisoner has been mailing to black leaders. In them, Ray insists he did not kill King and has evidence that "will be helpful in establishing that there was a conspiracy" behind the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ray's New Ally | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Fishy in Chicago | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Such problems have not been encountered by Golden Nugget Inc., of Las Vegas, which proposes building a new $75 million high-rise casino-hotel on the site of an old stucco motel. Golden Nugget's hard-driving president, Stephen Wynn, last month slipped into the motel wearing sandals and a T shirt. When the owner quoted an $8.5 million selling price, Wynn replied: "I'll give you a million now and the rest in 24 hours." Wynn told reporters that the owner was so surprised "he almost dropped dead." Also scrambling to open casinos are Playboy Enterprises, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Monopoly on the Boardwalk | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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