Word: bushell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ballads by the bushel have since embellished the fame of El Cid. Pierre Corneille made him the hero of France's first great play, Le Cid. Jules Massenet turned the play into an opera. And now Samuel Bronston. who recently made an appalling spectacle of the life of Christ (King of Kings), has produced the first film version of the legend. Inevitably, the picture is colossal-it runs three hours and 15 minutes (including intermission), cost $6,200,000, employs an extra-wide widescreen, a special color process, 7,000 extras, 10,000 costumes, 35 ships, 50 outsize engines...
...Million Bargain. But this was only one of the lures that the Government offered the farmer to take part in the program. Farmers could sell their corn to the Government at the support price of $1.20 a bushel-about 20? above the average market price. In addition, the Government punished farmers who did not come into the program by dumping grain on the market to hold down the competitive price. Finally, the Government allowed farmers in the program to use land withdrawn from feed grains to raise other crops...
...their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which the Administration was buying at the handsome support price of $2.30 a bushel...
...short end of that wishbone. Hounded by the heartless censors, her lover dies in a highway accident, surviving just long enough to reach a telephone and gasp into the mouthpiece-sure enough-those three little words. To the Kleenex corps, each one of them will be worth a bushel of Bermuda onions...
...made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president of the University of West Virginia, has yet to learn his job, recently admitted publicly that he did not know the difference between a battalion and a battle group...