Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next came America's heartland: Iowa. It was a stop that was not on the Pope's original itinerary. But Joe Hays, 39, a farmer and mechanic in Truro, sent the Pope a handwritten letter inviting him to visit American farm country. John Paul, who grew up in a Poland that was then overwhelmingly agricultural, accepted only five weeks before his U.S. tour was to begin, throwing Des Moines residents into a frenzy of eleventh-hour preparation...
Larry Bird, a farmer's son from French Lick, Ind., doesn't even crack a smile. He just scores the first hoop of the year for the Celtics, and follows it up seconds later with a full-court lob that catches M.L. Carr with two strides to go to the hoop. Fans go wild, Bird makes a few more spectacular passes, and then he sits down. He isn't the standout, not until the next night in Cleveland when he sinks 12 of 17 shots and scores 28 points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section...
However, at Minnesota statehearings on the health effects of high-voltage transmission lines, farmers from all across the state testified that nausea, abnormal rashes, migraine headaches and nosebleeds were endemic to all communities. "The government and the companies tell the people along the direct current line that the direct current line is the safest, and along the alternating current line that the alternating current line is the safest," says Crocker. Meanwhile, says Gloria Woida, a dairy farmer in GASP, "The companies came out and told us to put grounding wires on our tractors and equipment to prohibit shock and other...
...unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization, not as an individual." Kirkland, 57, who is expected...
...here he is dressed in a pair of white polyester cotton pajama bottoms. Sores mark his body from the waist up, but that, of course, is only as far as you can see. Richard once was an Air Traffic Controller for the American army. Then he was a farmer. And now he's one of the 66,000 refugees awaiting resettlement in a foreign country. "Any foreign country," says Richard in near-perfect English. "But I like to go the United States...