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...shoot them all." So said Farmer Ivan Josserand of Stanton County in western Kansas last week, as he fought a losing battle against swarms of grasshoppers chewing up his alfalfa and corn fields. In Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County Agent Monte Hendricks counted up to 50 hoppers per sq. yd., five times the number usually considered to be disastrous. Said he: "On the fringes of some bean fields there is nothing left but stubs...
...stranger sees it-but not for long. For MacArthur, in this cavernous tomb to New England's vanished woolen industry lie the makings of a Utopian community, or at least a working model of the 1980s. Behind the bleak, randomly broken windows he imagines 92,000 sq. ft. of space filled by maybe 60 different cottage industries, all running off the mill's hydroelectric power. An ad listed under business opportunities in the Maine Times reads in part: "Abandon ulcers, all ye who enter here ... serene, supportive, imaginative 'business hatchery' for starting second careers. Heated, lighted...
...Hermie's primary function is to keep asking MacArthur: "Are you sure you want to do that?" When MacArthur gets carried away with visions of an electric soil floor capable of growing 25 Ibs. per sq. ft. of the ripest, reddest, most luscious tomatoes, or the old red barn complete with a nature-food restaurant and live music. Hermie clamps down hard on reality and plays down-Maine Sancho Panza to MacArthur's Don Quixote. Then MacArthur will begin to talk about solid things-like the twelve-by-twelve beams in the old red barn, all meticulously mortised...
...sides worked out a compromise. By 1983 Britain will withdraw what has become an anachronistic and embarrassing colonial presence in the steamy 2,226-sq.-mi. sultanate of 190,000 people on the north coast of Borneo (see map). Meanwhile, British civil servants will continue to handle much of the sultanate's affairs, as they have since 1888, when the tiny backwater country, which a passing naval captain had chanced on 40 years earlier, formally became a British protectorate. In addition, London agreed to keep a battalion of tough Gurkha soldiers in Brunei (pronounced Brew-nigh) until the sultanate...
...Vegas MGM hotel's floor show has earned nearly $60 million. Some of old Hollywood remains in the new playgrounds. The MGM Grand Hotel and casino newly opened in Reno is colossal: it cost more than $138 million and has the world's largest casino (100,000 sq. ft. of gaming tables plus a jai alai fronton for parimutuel fanatics...