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...scandalous Salome-largely because of bizarre sets by Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali. He has set Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in what resembled an abandoned squash court, with the actors flying about on trapezes. Earlier this year, he staged Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard with rugs as virtually the only props...
...refused to permit aerial spraying-until the Reagan Administration finally threatened to embargo all California produce. By then, it may have been too late. Two weeks ago, on what San Joaquin farmers now call Black Friday, a fertile female Medfly was discovered in a trap placed in an apricot orchard owned by Gene Bays, a third-generation California grower in the small town of Westley (pop. 800), near the western edge of the rich farm lands...
...Orchard Lake, Mich...
...Somerset County, Pa., southeast of Pittsburgh, Standard Oil of Indiana has already sunk three dozen natural gas wells. In the Crab Orchard Mountains of Cumberland County, Tenn., Ladd Petroleum has struck oil and gas at depths of up to 4,000 ft., and expects to keep searching for the next five years before the area's potential is firmly established. In Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, Atlantic Richfield and Gulf are planning to spend up to $26 million over the same period to drill on some 1.2 million leased acres...
...First he was a butcher, then a barber...always cutting." Now he's retired, and so are the rest of them, but they keep active. The members of the self-styled Orchard Beach Retirement Club in New York City spend every day at the beach, and one proudly recalls, "We were here when it went below zero. We're here when it's raining and when it's snowing...