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...southern Washington, Farmer-Rancher Monte Shaffer, 49, surveyed 2,000 acres of hilly farm land-one-third of his tillage. The fields should have been rippling with mature wheat; instead they were creased with furrows. Shaffer had plowed most of the land under when it produced nothing more than weed-choked stubble only a few inches tall. Land that only two years before had yielded 50 bu. of wheat an acre is yielding a mere 13 bu. this year. But Shaffer said: "I'm more concerned about the export situation than anything else. Until there's a bigger...
...dispute over the scope of union bargaining authority derailed the talks. Letteri said Harvard's failure to guarantee job security to officers who fail their mandatory physical examinations was part of "a big all-out effort to break up the union" by using the physicals as an excuse to weed out uncooperative union members...
Other residents of Spring Mill Estates, an affluent Indianapolis suburb, knew Marguarite Jackson as "the demon lady." Though known to be rich, the plump, white-haired widow, 66, lived modestly, seldom venturing beyond the chain-link fence that guarded her weed-choked, three-acre property. Delivery men were instructed to stop on the street, honk, then pass their parcels to her over the fence. Lights blazed in the beige stone house day and night. When Mrs. Jackson did appear, her talk was a litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside...
...PILOTS. The men who occupy the left?or captain's ?seat of jet airliners operated by the world's major carriers are without question superb flyers. They have risen to the top of their profession through a system designed to weed out the incompetent. In the U.S., typically, the captain of a 747 is in his mid-50s, and has been flying for 30 years or longer. He may have joined his airline in his early 30s and served as a co-pilot for seven years or more before making captain...
...Down there in the front row is Lupe, the world's oldest beautician, whose face seems more left than lifted. "Lines, lines, go away," she says. "Pay a visit to Doris Day." At the back of the theater, sitting in a wheelchair, is Crystal the Terrible Tumble weed. A quadraplegic, Crystal has been crossing the country in her wheelchair, the CB-equipped Iron Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned...