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Earlier this month 500-h.p. diesel tractors, brand-named Big Bud 525 and Steiger Panther, pushed 60-ft.-wide chisel plows into the gentle prairie around the hamlet of Winnett, Mont., quickly transforming what once was Wayne Bratten's 28,000-acre ranch into a raw wound of overturned earth. Eastern Colorado Wheat Farmer Emmett Linnebur became a part owner of the Crow Rock Ranch near Miles City, Mont., and used a fleet of ten supertractors to tear into 50,000 of its acres for wheat planting. In recent years, tractors have bulldozed some 6.4 million acres of marginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Out a New Dust Bowl | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...call this lean, gray machine a bike is a bit like calling a panther "pussy" or the Queen "Liz." It cost $700, has 15 speeds, with wires in odd places, and it floats on balloon tires that would make an ascent up Everest seem like a jaunt through Central Park. "You can go off the curb or hit a pothole, and you don't even feel it," boasts Broderick. "It's like a Cadillac. It's the most expensive thing I ever bought, and I did it on the spur of the moment. I asked Elizabeth Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Twenty-One, Going on 15 (or 50) | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...hosts answered a Panther goal just 13 seconds into the contest with a six-goal avalanche in the next six minutes. Hawley tied it at the 42 mark and, after a nearly three-minute hiatus, his roommate Steve Bartenfelder put Harvard ahead for good with goals 91 seconds apart...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Laxmen Pummel Adelphi in 16-10 Rout; Double-Digit Offense makes its Debut | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Just 15 seconds later Follows pulled a similar play for his ninth goal of the season--and 33 seconds after that, midfielder Will Sollee bounched the sixth tally into the Panther twines...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Laxmen Pummel Adelphi in 16-10 Rout; Double-Digit Offense makes its Debut | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

...similar pattern developed in the final stanza when the spikers built and eventually lost 4-1 and 9-5 advantages. Each time Ross sparked the rallies through his emphatic inside game only to see disorganization plague the squad. Once again the Panthers intensified their serving efforts and caused havoc in Harvard's setting. As Martin said, "They got passes to their hitters very easily whereas we had to battle to set up our offense." These problems and a last Panther spike ended the game...

Author: By Mohammed Kashani-sabet, | Title: Spikers Fail in Eastern Finals Bid, Top Princeton But Bow to Pitt, 3-0 | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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