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...offense or defense. In Nebraska on Sunday, Bush grabbed one of the yellow, corncob-shaped hats worn by supporters and held it up for the cameras, delighting a packed rodeo arena decked with "Victory in the Heartland" signs along with hay bales, corn stalks and even a Case tractor. "I'm sure you've heard the same predictions I've heard," the President told them, reprising an applause line he uses in rally after rally. "The prognosticators have already decided the outcome of this election before the good people of Nebraska have voted. But don't worry about...
...piece of advice for me, and she said it every single morning. 'Get out of the house!' It's good advice. Come join the 6.8 million who are in a book club, or the 196,000 who attend pro beach volleyball, or the 680,000 who go to tractor pulls every month. There's even 3 million people who enjoy a sport called 'muzzleloading,' which involves shooting a gun that looks 200 years...
DIED. Martha Holmes, 83, one of LIFE's first female photographers and the creator of historic, vivid portraits of luminaries; in New York City. Warm and engaged, Holmes captured rare, personal moments in the lives of subjects from Edward R. Murrow (on a tractor on his farm in Connecticut) to Eleanor Roosevelt (surrounded by orphans on a walk through the woods). Holmes' famous shot of Jackson Pollock, cigarette dangling, working intently on one of his trademark splattered canvases, was later reproduced on a U.S. postage stamp...
...Guizhou province now see the evening news, with film from Beirut and New York. Three years ago, they did not know anybody lived on the other side of the nearest hill." In Yunnan province, Liang Weifeng got a state bank loan of $965 to buy a two-wheel tractor; he earned enough hauling firewood, bricks and grain for his neighbors to pay off the loan in eight months. Liang now clears about $1,660 a year from his business, which his wife Su Yongchang supplements with about $230 earned by raising rice and vegetables on a plot...
...point over the Litani River on the coastal road from Sidon. The bridge was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on July 12, the first day of the war in Lebanon. Working furiously for 48 hours, army engineers finished rebuilding the bridge just a few hours before the first tractor trailer carrying armored vehicles rumbled over. The bridge bowed but held, and Lebanon's army soon took symbolic possession of territory it hasn't controlled since the 1960s...