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Much of the worst damage is within a couple of hours' drive of the Mississippi, but there are ravaged zones all over. East in Indiana, a majority of the 1,173 farmers in desperately dry Newton County have lost more than half their crops to the drought. In west Texas, where it is always arid, farmers and ranchers are enduring the second year of drought; rainfall during the past year (4.83 in.) has been the skimpiest since 1892. There in Schleicher County, farmers during a decent season coaxed 26 bu. of wheat or one bale of cotton from each...
...sassy pertness that marks the style of many young, contemporary female vocalists has obviously impressed Seiko Matsuda, 21. She might well be the Olivia Newton-John of Japan. Seiko has what her countrymen describe as the girl-next-door look (if you happen to live in a suburban Osaka apartment complex) and, to be polite, a less than major lyrical talent. But since 1980, her twelve albums and 13 singles have brought in more than $125 million, boosting her own income from records to half a million dollars a year. Pressing on while her pressings are hot, she has starred...
...everything James Watt could have hoped for in a July 4th, and more. While the Interior Secretary watched from the roof of his offices a few hundred yards away, his celebrated choice for the capital's Independence Day concert, Wayne Newton, 41, hauled his sequined Las Vegas act out onto the Washington Mall. (One local radio station suggested that a two-drink minimum be imposed to make the entertainer feel more at home.) Doffing a headdress that had been presented to him earlier-Newton is part Indian-the singer milked the day's patriotic sentiment, kicking off with...
...Jose, Calif., reply: "The innocent victim of an accident should have somewhere to go if he can prove liability. If you look at it through the eyes of a quadriplegic, it's a fairly simple question to answer." Defendants' lawyers, on the other hand, fume. Attorney Stephen Newton of Mountain View, Calif., recently settled a claim by a victim who was paralyzed for life in an auto accident. Newton, representing a trucking company whose driver was essentially a bystander to the collision, did not believe his client was to blame but did not want to risk a jury...
...speaker and proud parent or uncle at no fewer than three commencements last week, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 51, could not have been more in evidence if he were running for President-or head of the P.T.A. He returned to his alma mater, the Fessenden School in West Newton, Mass., where his youngest son, Patrick, 15, was graduating from the ninth grade. Next came Brown University for the graduation of Nephew John F. Kennedy Jr., 22. But it was last week's graduation of Daughter Kara, 23, from Tufts University that created an unusual family portrait. Kennedy...