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Sometimes he pauses to reflect wistfully that the demands of managing a business with $3.5 million in assets keep him from doing as much of the actual planting and harvesting as he would like. Says Benedict: "I miss it, because spending eight hours in a tractor cab is a therapeutic kind of work. But I can't assign myself an all-day task running a machine any more. I have to be able to move about to make sure that it all comes together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

HOBBIES: Growing potatoes and "cruising" downtown Ithaca in a tractor "just for kicks...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: JACK'S PROFILES | 10/14/1978 | See Source »

...demonstrate their anger, settlers from Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights snarled traffic in Jerusalem last week by staging a massive tractor drive-in. Later, a vociferous band of 2,000 protesters marched outside the Knesset waving banners that read WE BEG YOU NOT TO RETREAT FROM SINAI and BEGIN: ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO RELY ON. Among the picketers were members of the 20 families that inhabit Ne'ot Sinai, one of 15 communities along the Mediterranean coast. The Ne'ot Sinai group was particularly angry with Begin: during a visit last year, he asked them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Sense of Betrayal | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...aged women hell-bent on reaching the graveside of their dead king on the first anniversary of his death. That was how I came to meet Janey Cray, who swooned over Elvis when she was young and sweet, and who now spends sleepless nights in the cab of a tractor-trailer rig, squinting out over burning cigarettes at interstate highways as she roams from city to city, transporting sides of beef and chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver in a pitch-black hallway...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Flowers for Elvis | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...daughter, but more comfortable with the idea that a woman's place is back in the house trailer cooking up corn biscuits, smiles and takes another chomp on his cigar. Meanwhile. Joe's son Allen, 4, scampers around the trailer on his toy John Deere tractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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