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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
...school in Chicago and an attempt to bus about 900 students from overcrowded black schools to under-crowded white ones. An estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are bused into a dozen schools in the section. When rumors spread that police might develop "blue flu" that day-calling in sick-so that they would not have to protect black children, Jackson hinted that black men might have to ride the buses carrying the transfers...
Over the weekend the halls in one section of the hotel over-flowed with bicycles, footlockers, stereos, and other paraphernalia of college life as more than 160 Tufts students--mainly sophomores--took up residence for the year in hotel room...
...opposed most midwifery for a variety of reasons. Among them: the difficulty in regulating midwife procedures, the belief that women get better basic care in hospitals and the fact that many deliveries may require aid that few midwives can provide in the home. Examples: anesthesia; delivery by cesarean section; forceps delivery; episiotomy, a surgical procedure in which an incision is made from the vulva through the perineum to widen the birth canal...
...Times readers (a defense the paper does not offer in covering other parts of the world). But Times people also claim that local coverage has improved since Sydney Schanberg became metropolitan editor in May, replacing Mitchel Levitas, who was moved sideways to edit the Sunday Week in Review section. Schanberg straightaway told his 100 or so metropolitan reporters that he wanted everybody "to have fun." Productivity has increased among reporters who were previously alienated, bored or overlooked; Times local coverage is growing more aggressive. The paper last month, for example, printed the names and pictures of prominent citizens who rent...