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...dryest summers in a century. City dwellers have sweltered through abnormally hot days. Farmers in England, northern France, Belgium, northern Italy and West Germany went months without rain, while their fields dried out and their crops shriveled. "My potatoes that should be fist-sized are as big as my thumb," complained a farmer near the small Bavarian village of Hersbruck. "That's what this cursed weather has done." The drought has also turned what promised to be a record British grain harvest into a disaster, lowering harvest expectations from 17.5 million tons to an anticipated 13.8 million. The grain...
...legislation passes both houses, it faces a veto from President Ford, who opposes the bill. Jimmy Carter, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, has also come out against a thoroughgoing breakup of major oil firms−though whether as President he would thumb down such a proposal is open to question. On the other hand, Carter would favor getting the oil companies out of other energy fields, such as coal, uranium and solar power...
Also troubling legal experts is the capriciousness of awards. Sums up W. Page Keeton, former dean of the University of Texas School of Law: "There are no yardsticks, no rules of thumb for courts to measure, say, pain and suffering. This is a major problem, and we're going to have to do some thinking about...
Kodak's is a dry-to-the-touch, litter-free process, unlike earlier "wet" Polaroid systems that produced sticky prints after sensitized paper was peeled off and discarded. The cheaper Kodak model will probably use a thumb-operated lever to set the camera for each new picture. A battery will power the more costly version, but it will be installed in the camera, not in the film pack, as is the case with the SX-70 system. This will increase film shelf life and avoid all the problems Polaroid had with its early SX-70 film packs, whose batteries...
...WALLACE wants to send another Albert Brewer to the showers, he wheels himself out and goes straight to the John Rawbons, spread over the dark inner continent of Florida. Some people who venture into that dark interior which begins at the Everglades and runs up the center of the Thumb past Tallahassee and Chatahoochee find the Rawbons. These are the Wallace people, who would vote for Wallace even if he were dead because of what he represented to the spreading rot of the North. Last week Wallace said that he would consider a black man for vice president: It doesn...