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...Tractor Driving. David Webster had the more slowly developing type of seizure from unexplained brain damage, beginning when he was ten months old. He was a trial to his foster parents at Thornhill, outside Toronto. Says Mrs. Willi Smith: "He had to take about nine pills a day and he still had a couple of attacks just about every day. Somebody always had to be with him on the stairs for fear he would slip. They have these attacks if they have the slightest little scare-like slipping on a polished floor. His behavior wasn't all that good...
...exactly welcomed the new machines. The robot, complains a United Automobile Workers official, can "even be programmed to shake hands. Presumably it could be set up to shake hands to say goodbye to the people it replaces." Yet in many cases, the people the robots replace are glad. Caterpillar Tractor Co. uses a Unimation-made robot to feed steel pins into furnaces, a tedious task that workmen heretofore had to perform with long-handled tongs. "The work is hot and repetitive," says a Caterpillar spokesman. "For the worker, it was just not desirable." For the robot, it's just...
Appalachians are not the only poor whites; they can be found throughout the nation. "Years ago," says an old Maine selectman, "a boy could leave school, get himself a saw and a jitterbug (tractor) and go into the woods to cut lumber. He'd do all right." Men like Everett Williams, 35, can no longer do all right. Williams, a lean, bony man in outsized boots and a gas-station-green work shirt, lives with his wife and eight children in a rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near...
...long in coming. The Israelis got the provocation they were looking for when a tractor pulling a cartload of kibbutzniks ran over a terrorist mine in the soggy underbrush of a Beisan valley banana plantation. Four men were killed, including the 53-year-old founder of the kibbutz, and four others wounded. Three hours later, the Israeli army opened up with light machine-gun fire on the Jordanian side of the valley. The Jordanians fired back, and the battle was on. Israeli artillery pounded an evacuated village, and Jordanian 155-mm. Long Toms zeroed in on seven kibbutzim...
...instance, that 40% of the soldiers guarding the Pentagon during last fall's peace march sympathized with the demonstrators; some, said L.N.S., actually shed their uniforms to join the flower people. Campus police at Wayne University, the service disclosed, plan to curb demonstrations with rifles, shotguns, and a tractor that converts into a tank. A lead to a story about counterinsurgency research at a subsidiary of Stanford University said: "Stanford has gone to war on the side of the elitist military dictatorship in Thailand...