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Hazlett Upson celebrates The Return of Alexander Bolts and his continuing correspondence with the brass at the Earthworm Tractor Company. The bust of Post Patriarch Benjamin Franklin is, of course, prominently displayed...
...went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found 21 bodies-mostly of middle-aged white itinerant farm workers, all of them apparently hacked to death with a heavy knife like a machete...
...gets too old to handle the chores himself-as is happening to two of Erv's neighbors. Also, inflation does not stop at the city limits. The Walters receive the same price for their crops that they did in 1953 (though livestock prices are now higher), but a tractor that cost $2,300 then now costs...
...ceaselessly. During planting time Erv rolls out of bed at 4:30 a.m., dons heavy green coveralls against the morning chill and tends to the barn chores before the cock crows. After breakfast at 6, he clambers into the enclosed cab of his 100-horsepower, red-and-white Farmall tractor and chugs into the field he will plow that day. Dinner at noon, supper at 6, then back into the fields to work by the light of his tractor's headlights until...
...days they thronged to the polling stations. Voters turned out from the snowswept Vale of Kashmir to the tiger-infested jungles of Assam. They came by tractor and motorcycle, on carts drawn by camels and bullocks, and most often on foot. There were youths in bell-bottoms voting for the first time, and newlyweds who married in the morning and voted in the afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk...