Word: raine
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...baroque orchestra, Banchetto Musicale's Royal Fireworks Concert at Marina Bay in North Quincy at 8 p.m. The outdoor program's concert includes Handel's "Water Music" and "Royal Fireworks Music", featuring a new fire-works display choreographed to music. Tickets are $20 or $25 for table seats. Rain date: July 31. Telephone...
KEITH JARRETT TRIO: STILL LIVE (ECM). Ravishing standards like Come Rain or Come Shine and upbeat thrillers like Charlie Parker's Billie's Bounce: dazzling jazz piano from one of the best...
Farmer Charles Phelps knows he is lucky. His corn crop was days away from disaster when a pair of isolated rainstorms came breezing through Hastings, Iowa, dumping a bit more than 6 in. of rain on his parched fields. "Now it looks like we might have a crop after all," says Phelps. Some 360 miles to the east, Herb Steffen of Cropsey, Ill., laments that he has not seen enough rain "to settle the dust," much less nurse his corn crop though its critical pollination period. "It's heartbreaking to watch crops die in the field," says Steffen's wife...
...throughout the U.S. Farmbelt last week. While a few fortunate areas were blessed with rain and even an occasional thunderstorm, most of the nation found little relief from the drought that began in the spring. Just how much damage the prolonged dry spell has already caused was the subject of a preliminary crop forecast issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA estimated that U.S. grain production in 1988 may be only 212 million metric tons, down 24% from 1987. The corn crop is particularly hard hit -- 26% smaller than last year. The USDA pegged soybean production...
...disaster benefits so that large corporate farms would not benefit disproportionately from the legislation. Drought relief has the full support of President Reagan, who last week visited the Midwest drought belt. Speaking at the fairgrounds in Du Quoin, Ill., the President said, "We can't make it rain, but we can help ease the pain...