Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being accepted by farmers-if only because it offers a safety net. Instinctively, many farmers prefer the vagaries of the free market to even a hint of intervention by Big Government: in this case, however, most recognize that they have come close to being overwhelmed. Ed Burds, 44, owner of a 373-acre spread near Peosta, Iowa, says of the Administration plan: "I don't like it, but that's what we'll have to do. We'd sooner go all out and produce, but we can't when corn sells...
...farm to a barn more than 100 miles away for a talk with a dozen farmers and their families and a spread of cold milk, homemade blueberry cake and chocolate chip cookies. "You must be a good man," said Dairy Farmer Robert Regnell. "You brought rain." Added Lawrence Wimmer, owner of the barn: "A Republican can be a good...
...question of how the once unremarkable Berkowitz acquired his demonic delusions will, of course, be the object of intense psychiatric study. Born Rich ard David Falco, but given up for adoption by his mother at birth, the killer was raised by Nathan Berkowitz, a respected owner of a small hardware store in The Bronx. His first wife pampered David, but one family friend recalls that the boy sometimes would "curse her because he knew he was adopted." Nevertheless, when she died of cancer in 1967, her teen-age son sobbed openly at the funeral; no body could remember his crying...
...seized by police in a car in Brooklyn for carrying two pistols was Son of Sam, angry crowds swarmed out of bar and threatened to attack the gunman. Police sped away with him for his own protection. The bitter yearning for revenge was widespread. A candy-store owner asked, "You know what I'd do with him?' Then answered: "I'd cut both his legs off and say to the police, 'When you give me the reward, I'll bring the rest of the body...
...other hand, Art Leon, owner of The Tourist Trap, a Hollywood Boulevard bar with a parquet dance floor, pool tables and pinball machines, accuses the police of hassling him. "On Friday and Saturday the cops come in here and take out all the women and jack them up against the wall for prostitution," says Leon, who packs a .25-cal. automatic pistol. He claims police sit out front and "tell customers not to come in here." Alcoholic Beverage Control agents have filed an "accusation" against The Tourist Trap, listing 39 offenses, a first step in getting its liquor license withdrawn...