Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst thing I ever did was win an election, says William H. Bailey, 40, the first black ever elected to the Rhode Island state legislature from the ghetto district of south Providence. Until his election last November, Bailey was riding high as the prosperous owner of four apartment buildings. Now his long criminal record has been revealed, and he faces the prospect of serving up to four years in a Michigan prison for larceny...
...thing is sure, the "Billy market" is out there. Says Oakland Athletics Boss Charlie Finley: "I see where Bill Veeck [Chicago White Sox owner] is trying to get President Carter to throw out the first ball on opening day. Well, I'm trying to get Billy Carter. He's my kind of guy." Bantam Books rushed into print a collection of Billy's tell-it-like-it-is shots from the hip. An embarrassingly thin volume, Redneck Power: The Wit and Wisdom of Billy Carter sells for $1.50, yet went through its first printing...
...hanging on by my toenails." In just the past year, Minnesota has lost 3,000 of its 34,000 dairy farmers because of soaring feed costs and dry pastures. In South Dakota, a 3,600-acre ranch sold last week for $190 an acre; last June its owner was asking $287 an acre. "I know that ranch is worth more than that," says Banker Howard Peterka of Miller, S.D., "but everyone is overextended. There's no borrowing power around...
...Steiner, executive director of the state's water commission, "all agricultural production in Arizona would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred years." Said Jack Francis Jr., co-owner of the state's biggest cotton-gin firm: "The news was like having your dad die when you're 17. You just aren't ready...
...play's tragic relief is supplied by the wrenching pathos of the orchard's owner, Madame Ranevskaya. In this role the production boasts the splendid Irene Worth. Hers is a memorable portrayal - extravagant, feckless, alluring, touchingly vulnerable. When she ritualistically halves the telegram from her erstwhile lover in Paris - slowly, pain fully, like a bandage - an entire life is caught between the past it cannot release and the future it cannot resist...