Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...goal: to give a boost to the small family farmer by granting 160-acre parcels of the West's vast quantity of public arid land, and making it fit for agriculture by bringing in federally subsidized water. According to the suit, larger landowners (including such agribusiness giants as Southern Pacific Co., Standard Oil and Tenneco Inc.) gradually cut themselves in for Government water, ignoring the requirement that they sell any land in excess of 160 acres in exchange...
...after the Pianelli kidnaping, Italian police rescued Medical Student Giuseppe Luppino, 21, from captivity in a crude hut near the southern Italian village of Seminara. After Luppino's seizure more than a month ago, his ft earlobe had been cut off and sent to his father with a note saying, "Unless you pay us 500 million lire, you'll get me head of your son, not just...
Though Inventor Clive Sinclair, 37, is hoping to drum up demand for his set throughout Europe, he is particularly interested in the rich American market, where he has limited sales to such pricy outlets as Manhattan-based Bloomingdales, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Southern California's Bullocks. Even so, he insists the set "is not a toy. Its uses are endless-at sporting events, on a boat, commuting by train, for automobile passengers...
...SLEEPY SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...
...fact it may be years before southern Lebanon is again an area where fields can flourish and people can go about their daily lives without looking up and seeing artillery on the stony ridges around them. Already, though, a few people are going back to look over their houses-or what is left of them. They are not sure they will stay, but, if the weather permits, they will let their children swim in the Litani River, just as they used to in better days...