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...into an agricultural disaster area have returned to some areas of the Great Plains, parching crops and whipping topsoil into sun-darkening clouds. In the 1930s the victims of the drought-the impoverished Okies memorialized in Steinbeck's novel-were lured westward by California's verdant fruit groves. But this time California is suffering from its most severe drought since 1921 and is in the midst of an agricultural crisis...
...Directory is also challenged by political problems outside continental Portugal. In the lush, verdant Azores, 1,000 miles off Portugal's coast-and site of the U.S.'s important Lajes airbase -there is increasingly serious talk of breaking away from Lisbon. Mild discontent has long simmered in the islands. The 300,000 inhabitants have resented paying higher taxes and higher prices than the mainland Portuguese. In recent months, this bitterness has flared into open hostility as the predominantly conservative Azorians have been jolted by the leftward drift of the mainland's politics...
After a 95-minute meeting withFord and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office, the Shah was the guest of honor, with Empress Farah, at a luncheon given by Kissinger and his wife Nancy. The site of the feast was Hillwood, the verdant 25-acre estate bequeathed to the Government by the late Marjorie Merriweather Post. A huge green-and-white-striped tent was hung with May baskets filled with tulips. Inside, guests lunched on gazpacho, filet of beef, and lime sherbet heaped with fresh strawberries. The Robert Mc-Namaras, the William F. Buckleys, the David Brinkleys...
...snow ridge somewhere in the frozen North, Dad joins forces with a just-plain-swell American (David Hartman) who specializes in Arctic studies. With an occasional hand from an eccentric French blimp captain, these two run Junior to ground-rather strange ground too. He has been lodged in a verdant valley that is nestled behind some icecaps and warmed, as Scientist Hartman conjectures, "by volcanic springs." Even more amazing, the folks who inhabit the valley are Vikings, descendants of the old explorers, who live, work and fight just as their forebears did. They also believe that the searchers...
...difficult for these abstract facts to seep in. Harvard is a secure enclave in a shaky society, a verdant oasis in a parched economy. Come 5:30 or 6:00 we close our magazines to head downstairs to the dining hall, where we are ladled out as much as we can eat. We put aside our newspapers to run to the library to check out a book for an upcoming exam. We turn off the radio as we hurry to Harvard Square to do some errands...