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...where to put it. All across "corndom," as Author E.J. Kahn Jr. likes to call it, there is a frantic search for storage space. In Dubuque they will use caves. On the Missouri River, they will tie up barges and stuff them. The Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only we could fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Students at the Lincoln, Neb. campus can now start their day with their very own breakfast cereal featuring the football team mascot Herbie Husker...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Cornhusker Flakes | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

Cornhusker All-Stars were created by Sutherland, Neb., corn farmer Donald Grubb in an effort to keep his farm afloat financially...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Cornhusker Flakes | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

...certain. "All it tells you is that a person is where you want him to be," says Minnesota Corrections Commissioner Orville Pung. "He could be running a stolen-goods ring out of his house." The concept also prompts philosophical opposition. Says Joseph Vitek, director of corrections for Douglas County, Neb.: "It smacks of police state." Most / inmates, do not appear to be burdened by such considerations. Jeffrey Stafford, who is employed as a house painter, says he has every reason to make the idea work. "It would never enter my mind to tamper with the anklet," he claims. "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiderman's Net: An electronic alternate to prison | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flick Lit Suspects | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

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