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...apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended their seasons...
...late afternoon at Canyon Ranch, "America's first total vacation/fitness resort." The sun slants across the roofs of the patio homes strung out across the desert, tinting the Santa Catalina Mountains, lengthening the shadows of the giant saguaro cacti...
...overextended small farmer is getting squeezed most. When his finances are so precarious that even the sympathetic local banker will not extend credit, he turns to the Farmers Home Administration, an agency of the Department of Agriculture. That lender of last resort finds that 51% of its one-year operating loans were delinquent at the beginning of this year, compared with 26% in 1979. In the past three years, the number of delinquent loans has nearly tripled, to 218,054, and their value has multiplied nearly five times, to $14.9 billion. While the FHA has begun foreclosure proceedings against only...
...Squaw Valley, seven miles west of Lake Tahoe, an avalanche crew was trying last Wednesday to dislodge a huge overhang of snow on a ridge overlooking the Alpine Meadows ski resort. The resort, like many others in the Sierras, was officially closed; only about a dozen of its 250 employees were on hand, along with a few valley residents purchasing emergency food supplies at the lodge. Suddenly, in midafternoon, the ridge mass gave way. Propelling 100-m.p.h. winds before it, a wall of snow half a mile wide and 20 ft. high slammed down into the valley snapping...
Meanwhile, Warsaw is slowly reducing the number of less illustrious prisoners held in camps throughout the country. A holiday resort in Jaworze that has served as an internment camp is now taking reservations from prospective vacationers for June. Wladyslaw Loranc, the head of Polish radio and television, told staffers who survived the purge that freed detainees should not be viewed as heroes, but should "return with heads bowed." Walesa himself has pledged not to bow to military authorities. Says Danuta: "He will not bend. I am certain of this because I know him well...