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...rotary hoe is (a) a subcommittee of the Rotary International, (b) a folk dance in a "hoe down," (c) a type of spike-tooth harrow, (d) a Cultipacker used in no-till agriculture, (e) a farm implement used to loosen soil after planting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Babes in Farm Land | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Roger Shaff of Camanche, Iowa, drills the seed corn every spring into the black soil of his 550 acres, harvests the heavy yield in the fall and feeds the corn to livestock that he sells. His life is his family and his land and his right to do things his way. C. Lee Mantle of Painesville, Ohio, is retired now from his real estate business. He founded it, saw it grow to a firm employing ten people. In his small corner of this country, it was a glorious adventure. He wants to make sure that that kind of opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Crusade of Riskers and Doers | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...still control Walvis Bay, the only good port on Namibia's Atlantic coastline, which South Africa has held as a separate entity since 1910. Small wonder, then, that the new Namibian government is expected to sign a security agreement allowing South African troops to be based on Namibian soil. The troops will defend the new government against SWAPO guerrilla raids. More important from South Africa's viewpoint, they will preserve Namibia's status as a buffer to the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAMIBIA: Toward Independence | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

under your soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Every Circle of Hell | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...only from malnutrition but also from infections picked up at sea. Some, such as smallpox, malaria and measles, proved effective biological-warfare weapons, ravaging the Indians, who had no immunity against them. But most of the disease-causing microbes of the Old World took readily to the fertile soil of the New World, and so did the insects and vermin that carry them. The result: for fully three centuries, North America was scourged by deadly epidemics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: PLAGUES OF THE PAST | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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