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Country people are often reluctant to confide in strangers, but their alarm is such that Willard Treu, a wheat, milo and corn grower, rushed up to TIME Correspondent Barbara Dolan when he heard her asking about farm problems at the John Deere store in Quinter, Kans. "I'm scared," he said. "I'm 61 years old and 41 years a farmer, and this is the worst time I've been through...
...over an old wagon trail-in authentic replicas of covered wagons. For about $800, a family of four rides a prairie schooner driven by a hired hand, with stops along the trail to investigate the Smoky Hill River or the surrounding hills. The weekly wagon trains pull out from Quinter, 325 miles west of Kansas City, travel 110 miles round trip and, claims Wagon Ho!, never come within sight of a road or house...
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS FUND, founded by Ralph Quinter, 32-year-old president of the old-line Pennsylvania Mutual Fund, has not yet been approved by the SEC. Quinter has arranged for the Council on Economic Priorities, a New York-based public-interest research group, to provide information about which companies and industries behave best with regard to such "social criteria" as environmental protection, employee job training and product safety...
Realizing that it must buckle down and win a few games to avert a highly disgraceful record, the Crimson quinter will take the floor against a powerful Providence College five at the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight. Providence is one of the strongest teams in New England, having shown its worth by defeating Yale 35-32 in December...
Despite Yale's drop from last year's league championship, and her uneven playing this season, the Blue boosts a formidable outfit and will prove decidedly dangerous to the Crimson quinter. Pite's sensational throws will be a chief factor in the work of Captain. Hoxie Haas's Eli outfit, while the playing of Luman and Stevens, of gridiron fame, will prove by no means insignificant...
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