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Jessie Small sits in the front seat of his Chevy pickup truck chomping on an unlit Roi-Tan cigar and directing his three combines as they complete the cutting of a wheatfield about 15 miles outside the town of Circle, Mont. Jessie seldom bothers to light his cigars; mostly he just chews on them, discarding the soggy end, piece by piece, until there's nothing left. The radio linking him with his combines crackles: "Which way do we go? I can't find the new area...
Happily, the invasion did little damage to Prague, one of Europe's best-preserved and most charming capitals. Even the minor scars have largely disappeared, cabled TIME Correspondent David Aikman from that city last week. "Wenceslas Square, the city's kilometer-long main street, has seldom looked better. There is no sign of tension among Czechs lining up around street vendors to buy ice cream or to window-shop during their brief lunch hour. The large number of uniformed police could be accounted for -nominally at least-by a complicated new system of traffic flow in the city...
...incurable gamblers that they are, oilmen seldom quit. Shell is moving its rig southward and, along with a group of 18 partners, will sink a second well, to a planned 16,000 ft. Mobil, Exxon and Texaco are pressing ahead with test borings of their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good...
...newcomers often lead low-key lives for fear of kidnapings and potential retaliation against their families back home. The Iranians, for example, are seldom to be seen in fashionable bistros or stores. (One high-living exception is Henry Hakim, 24, who claims to own one of Southern California's biggest trading companies; he says that he ships back home to Iran 85% of all sunglasses sold in that country-where everyone, it seems, wears sunglasses.) Nonetheless, the new immigrants show a certain style wherever they settle. The Europeans, in particular, tend to have a sleek insouciance that immediately sets...
...independence seldom brings fame...