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...result, planting of strawberries, tomatoes and lettuce was delayed. Then, when the lettuce seeds were finally in the ground, many of them were washed away by subsequent downpours. The price of lettuce on the East Coast rose to a staggering $1 and even more per head. Observes Rancher Willie Chamberlin: "It's a lot like a breakfast table. Sometimes you have a little pancakes left over. Sometimes you have a little syrup left over. The trick is to make it come out even...
...gaudy furnishings. "It's part of Texas history," exulted Dallas Housewife Rena Winfield, who came away with two bar stools supported by pairs of shapely legs. A bag of brass tokens, embossed with the motto "Good for all night," went for $30. David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli, etc. The triumphant new owner, who paid $30 for it, identified herself...
...then that Dick McDougal, a Lovelock, Nev., rancher who heads the National Cattlemen's Association, flew to Washington to huddle with Robert Strauss, the celebrated Texas shooter of the bull. McDougal made this case to Carter's No. 1 inflation fighter: beef prices have gone up about as far as they will go. So, just let the cattleman alone, and he will build up his herds. But if more imports come in, the rancher may well reduce his herds still more-and prices, after a short dip, will climb through the early 1980s...
Back to basics is the rule. Last century, Rancher E.J. ("Lucky") Baldwin ordered his men to "clear the land, but leave the oaks" in the area that is now Monrovia. Today, Monrovians would say, "Cut our taxes, but leave the city...
While the country was trying to figure out just what had happened, officials of the President's Reformista Party were claiming victory. But so was Guzmán. The wealthy 67-year-old rancher and coffee planter told a news conference: "It is up to the electoral board to declare me the winner. We will not allow the official election results to be altered." Manuel Joaquin Castillo, head of the board, insisted that no one had yet won and at week's end announced that the counting of ballots had resumed. He warned his countrymen, however, that...