Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along the 18-mile route to Hangar S, cheering crowds lined the highway. Welcoming signs and banners decked the motels of Cocoa Beach. One banner read simply: WELCOME TO EARTH. Riding on the back of a white convertible, Glenn held Annie Glenn tightly with his right arm. At one point, Lyndon Johnson halted the motorcade to greet a small boy wearing a space helmet. Immediately the Glenn car was engulfed in well-wishers...
...Zealand has promised to bulwark Western Samoa's copra, cocoa and banana economy for three years, will train teachers for the island's educational program. With no army, no political parties, and no traffic jams, Western Samoa has little concern for the world beyond its shores. As proof, it committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of other newly independent nations anxious for an immediate voice in the great-power struggles: it announced that it would not immediately seek membership...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
...oils, toilet articles, animal feed, canned and frozen foods, ice cream and sausages. Its 400 MacFisheries stores in Britain make it the world's largest fishmonger. One Unilever subsidiary, the United Africa Co., is the largest trader in Africa; another cultivates 213,710 acres of rubber, palm oil, cocoa and coffee plantations in six countries. With an annual ad budget of $300 million, Unilever is the world's biggest advertiser and, not surprisingly, operates one of Britain's largest advertising agencies. All told, Unilever includes 104 major companies, has 448 direct or indirect subsidiaries in 53 countries...
...proliferated in lean postwar years to discourage imports, now hurt their own consumers as well as African, Asian and Latin American producers. Ranging from a West German levy that boosts the price of coffee to 35? a cup in restaurants, to the Common Market's exorbitant duties on cocoa, such restrictions actually work against the West's financial and technical aid to many underdeveloped nations, which need to expand exports to pay interest (up to 7%) on development loans. Duty-free admission for all tropical products, urged Nigeria's Alhaji Shehu Shagari, would "provide a real...