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Beyond the emotional trauma of selling beloved land, farmers are finding buyers scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. After a long, spectacular climb, the value of crop land is falling. Average Indiana farm land sold a year ago for $ 1,200 an acre. Last month it was fetching only $700. Predicts Robert Maurer, a banker in Fairbury...
...Arab-dominated East Jerusalem. Late last year she tabled a motion to annex the occupied Golan Heights. She would also like to annex the West Bank, but her main mission at the moment is to block the Sinai withdrawal. Says she: "The people of Israel are nervous. This national trauma will stay in our hearts and minds forever...
...Labloid Boston Herald American, for example, alternating "LOCKE'S GREED" with "CLAUS WAS A LOUSE" as a daily cover decoration. (You can almost picture each rushing to a newsstand each morning, breathing a sigh of relief when it was the other's turn.) The two have suffered the trauma of seeing close relationships dissolve. A chief official and a young assistant of the MBTA, "close friends" of Locke, took the stand for the prosecution. Von Bulow's maid, his two step-children and his lover--the woman for whom he risked it all--gave testimony for the state...
Wham-O believes that the current economic troubles may be just what is needed to give the Hula Hoop another whirl. The first introduction coincided with the 1958 recession, while the second came during the trauma of the Viet Nam War. As Shapiro explains, "Wham-O has always felt that when the world is in kind of a messy way and people are unhappy, something like the hoop lets them just forget everything while they go crazy for a minute or two spinning around...
Many of us are acquainted with abortion whether through the experience of a friend, a missed period or personal confrontation with the choice itself. One need not have had an abortion to understand its trauma, and one should not, once one has become acquainted with it, bury it. And so, I am writing for the women who have had abortions as well as for the one, like myself, who could have them...