Word: plowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this makes contemporary farming something more than a bucolic communion of man, plow and earth. Says Erv: "A farmer these days has to be a good buyer and seller-that's the important thing. But he must also be an electrician, soil analyst and veterinarian. If he isn't, he's sunk." Each winter Erv and his sons attend courses in nearby towns given by the Extension Service and firms that try to keep farmers abreast of advancing farm technology. Lately Walters has added the omnipresent computer to his list of farm aids. For $80 a year...
...Houston. The scope is appropriate to the ambitions of Frank Sharp, 64. an East Texas country boy who abandoned the plow at 19 to learn big-city ways. He became a wealthy real estate developer after World War II; one suburban project alone involved 15,000 houses. "You just wait," he once said. "Some day I'll have a city out there bigger than Houston." He also prospered in banking and insurance...
...this year the City has spent $50,000 hiring contractors to remove snow. Last night the Council voted to investigate the possible use of more city trucks to plow snow, and to look into the question of approximately 30 plow attachments which were allegedly stolen from the City. Several speakers hinted that the contractors might have stolen the plows, valued at $1,000 apiece...
...that grow and grow again." The surly dock workers of Haiphong have left tons of cargo to rot and rust on the piers. In the countryside, stubborn peasants joke about Hanoi's efforts to make the collectives work. The latest concerns the government-issued Nam Mot (Model 51) plow. The shoddy, easily broken plow, say the peasants, should really be named "Mot Nam"-meaning one season...
...floated eerily in the sea; he also transferred yellow leguminous flowers from nearby slopes to the ocean floor. Oppenheim, long intrigued by the "incredibly irregular" patterns of U.S. Highway 20 he had observed on maps, decided to transfer the configuration of the highway to water. Using a boat to plow a path in the bay, he dropped deep magenta dye and gasoline in its wake, then set the gas afire to create an astonishing analogy to automobile accidents. In the aftermath, Tobago's Crown Point beaches were washed by purple waves for several hours...