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Kenny's place was a trailer parked on the corner of some pasture stuck in between several larger lots of cattle range and pine tree forests. Around the trailer, which was resting on blocks, were a tractor, a car, a clothesline, some horses out in the field, some baby toys, a dog with mange, and a motor-cycle under a tarpaulin. The grass was long and wet, and once I stopped my car coupling black love bugs settled...
...Sometime that first year I go to Mr. MacDonald, looking for someone to cut my grass here, it was so overgrown then. And he tells me, 'Hey, I think we can make us both some money here.' I didn't know it was hay, but now I got a tractor made in 1948, the year I was born, ready to go to work. Made a couple hundred dollars right there for a full day's work. When did I first get this land...
Wide World of Sports. While Moorer dodges bullets on Channel 4, Evel Knievel will jump over tractor-trailer trucks (11 of them) next door. At least, like Moorer, he will try. Ch. 5, 4:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
...Track Ventures. To be sure, American trains today are among the world's worst. From the Toonerville trolleys of commuterdom to the fusty relics that creak round the continent, they presently offer only slightly more attractive transportation than a Caterpillar tractor. Railroad managements generally, and frequently their employees, make no secret of their disdain for the passenger; the big money has always been in freight, real estate, mining and other off-track ventures. In the classic words of James Hill, a 19th century president of the old Great Northern, "A passenger train is like the male teat-neither useful...
...excuse for continuing illegal highway blockades. "Holding the public hostage because there is a fuel shortage would be totally irresponsible and counterproductive," says Thomas C. Schumacher Jr., managing director of the California Trucking Association. Such talk does not impress the truckers. One driver, sitting in the cab of a tractor-trailer that was blocking traffic approaching the Delaware Memorial Bridge last week, said: "We want Nixon and his people, when they turn on their television sets, to hear...