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...acres of land in northeastern Oregon. Originally planned as a test site for rockets, the sagebrush-dotted wilderness now is scheduled to become a thriving agricultural and industrial community. Later this month Boeing will begin construction of a 42-in. irrigation pipeline. The company plans to plant a potato crop in March, and it has sublet part of the tract to Japanese chicken growers, who will use the land to grow alfalfa. To enrich the sandy soil. Boeing and a Portland group, Columbia Processors Cooperative, are experimenting with a fertilizer made from Portland's waste products. "Even...
...Potato-Faced Fellows...
Jack Lynch was born in Cork in an age when peat, potatoes and parish priests meant Ireland. They are still valid symbols, and the country still feels the effects of the terrible potato famine of 1846-48, emigration and a low birth rate. Just before the famine, its population was 8,000,000; now it is 3,000,000. But today's Eire is also a land that produces electronics equipment, Pharmaceuticals and plastics, one where 500 factories have been built in the past decade...
From his childhood years. Skinner was mechanically inclined. He built roller-skate scooters, steerable wagons, rafts, water pistols from lengths of bamboo, and "from a discarded water boiler a steam cannon with which I could shoot plugs of potato and carrot over the houses of our neighbors." He also devised a flotation system to separate green from ripe elderberries, which he used to sell from door to door. Although his attempts to build a glider and a perpetual motion machine ended in failure, his innovative tinkering was to pay off handsomely in the laboratory in later years...
When Henry Fonda threw a party some months back to celebrate the opening of his ABC television series (The Smith Family), he served all-American fare: hot dogs, sauerkraut and potato salad. "They no longer tent the whole damned yard," says Ronny Clint, manager of Chasen's, whose catering business is off 30% from last year. Says Chuck Pick, one of Hollywood's professional car parkers, "I used to do theatrical parties two or three times a week. Now, if it weren't for doctors, lawyers and businessmen, I'd be out of business...