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Want to escape the fear of crime in the city and buy a safe, thriving farm? Better think twice. In Ohio, crime in nine agricultural counties has risen 305% since 1963. In Kansas and California, farm machinery is being engraved with identification numbers to discourage gangs of highly organized thieves from stealing and then fencing such heavy booty. Up to now, it has been easy to get rid of a $34,000 bulldozer quickly at a very substantial discount...
White South Africans sometimes say flippantly that their country's color problem began nine months after Jan van Riebeeck and his Dutch East India Company settlers arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. In many ways, this is how the "coloreds" (racially mixed South Africans) have long been regarded by whites-as a joke and an embarrassment, as "brown Afrikaners," the living evidence of indiscretions by their forefathers...
Safire joined the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign as a speechwriter, a job he retained when Nixon won. Nine months after the Watergate breakin, Safire left the White House and took a columnist's job at the New York Times. He had a previous offer from the Washington Post Co., but Publisher Arthur Sulzberger met him at a dinner in New York and made a higher bid-reportedly $50,000. That sizable salary, and his early columns defending Nixon against Watergate charges, did not endear Safire to many Times colleagues. But readers found him a lively contrast to the paper...
Making his first varsity appearance, the tall sophomore completed 20 of 40 tosses for 250 yards. For the day, Harvard connected on 31 of 57 for a school-record 380 yards. That was nine more passes than any Harvard team had ever tried in a single game before...
...that point, Brown went to the bench despite the fact that he had connected on six of nine tosses. For the second week in a row, the Crimson ground attack was going absolutely nowhere...