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Benedict makes a quick trip by pickup truck around his 3,500 acres of wheat and sugar beets. At each of many stops he whips out a pocket calculator and does some rapid figuring before giving the hired hands orders on, say, exactly how much pesticide to spray on each field. By 8 a.m. he is heading home to start the most important part of his day: several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output...
...that all you can do is go for bigger acres and make sure that each acre produces more crop." So, besides buying land, he has purchased so much machinery that it requires a football-field-sized yard just to park it. A partial inventory: four 15-ton trucks, three pickup trucks, seven tractors, three center-pivot irrigators and three wheat combines that cost $30,000 each, yet are used only about two weeks a year...
...only Benedict exempted from chores is two-year-old Luke, and even he tours the fields regularly, bouncing on his father's lap in a pickup truck (his present on his second birthday: a toy tractor). Besides the supervision and paperwork, Pat labors with his hands too, doing most of the machinery repairs himself...
...first-and-ten at the Colgate 23, Brown hit Connors, who snagged six passes during the day, for a ten-yard pickup. On the next play Matt Granger barrelled all the way down to the goaline but an illegal procedure penalty brought the ball back to the 18-yard-line. The drive foozled when on second down Brown was bushwacked by Ken Ebeling and fumbled over the football...
Chairman of the Standing Committee on Athletics and Government professor James Q. Wilson: "The biggest bureaucracy isn't in Washington, D. C. It's here at Harvard. Just try getting into a pickup game at the IAB on Friday afternoons...