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When he sets out to harvest the best of this bumper crop of high school stars, Coach Vaught is a shrewd and patient recruiter. He quietly notes that a degree from Ole Miss carries more weight than one from archrival Mississippi State. To hear him talk, Ole Miss football is a family affair. Eight of Vaught's assistants are graduates of the school, and most have been coaching there for a dozen years or more. Above all, Vaught extols state pride with the fervor of a militia colonel. "Boys we get from out of state can go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Coach Johnny Reb | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...upcoming bumper wool clip of 120,000 tons will mean a new boost in living standards. More than $70 million in private capital invested abroad has returned home to provide new capital and new jobs. Damage from last April's floods is repaired; electric power, in fact, had increased 35% by last July. Even Montevideo's normally belligerent students are quieting down as the Nardone-Haedo leadership slowly pushes Uruguay uphill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Two-Headed Leadership | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...Vincent Peale and those Protestant ministers. It was Adlai Stevenson when he was in St. Paul. Adlai said he found St. Paul appealing and Peale appalling." Then he added: "These can't be the original candidates-they must be the road company." ¶ In Los Angeles, the newest bumper strip rejoices: "BE THANKFUL ONLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pat, Pop & Bingo | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...purpose of the rally," Barber , "is to show that Saltonstall's opponent, Democrat Thomas O'Connor, has monopoly on youth support in Massachusetts." He asserted that the Saltonstall bumper stickers being played are almost all the work of young Republicans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saltonstall Will Address College Rally | 10/20/1960 | See Source »

...Peking's People's Dally dolefully informed readers that in 1960 half of China's cropland had been visited by drought, floods, hordes of insects or other natural disaster. While Russia, with bumper crops in the Ukraine and northern Caucasus to compensate for Kazakhstan's losses, may yet do a little better than 1959's thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Subversion on the Farm | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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