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As a biting Texas panhandle wind flung dirt into their weather-creased faces, some 50 solemn cotton farmers met near the town of Tulia (pop. 5,033) last week for a ritual as sorrowful as a wake. They were there to cast reluctant bids on the well-worn tools and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everything You've Got Is Gone: Texas Farmers | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Israelis feel so strongly about the West Bank in part because of what is happening in the northern Sinai, which Israel has agreed to give back to Egypt by April 25. Although most Israelis regard the Sinai withdrawal as a suitable price to pay for peace with Egypt, the evacuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tension on the Borders: Israel | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

One measure of a singer/songwriter's versatility is his treatment of non-original material. On Coconut Telegraph Buffett recorded a contemporary version of the 1930s hit "Stars Fell on Alabama." On this album, there are two covers, both of which recall bygone days of steamships sailing away for distant shores...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: More Than Margaritaville | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

Alas, it was Ko-Ko himself who would be missed by sorrowful G&S fans in England and the U.S. (where the troupe made its first tour in 1879-80, for the premiere of Pirates of Penzance). Last week, after more than a century of continuous operation as a troupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Final Curtain for D'Oyly Carte | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

In a meadow near Eureka, Calif., on the state's rocky northern coast, 50 Yurok Indians gathered for an unusual ritual. After three younger members of the tribe hollowed out a bit of earth, a Yurok leader reverentially placed seven bags in the hole. Ella Norris, 83, the tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Some Bones of Contention | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

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