Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that some are now making. In Brazil last week bulldozers began bowling over the first of two billion coffee trees slated for destruction under a $70 million government plan to diversify Brazilian agriculture. Part of President Kennedy's recent $20 million loan to Mexico will be used to convert coffee acreage to other crops...
...antiquated, overcrowded county jail, he was described as "savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes from Nietzsche and William Blake...
...matters cultural, Nikita Khrushchev is simply not with it; modern art gives him indigestion, and he regards jazz as so much noise. Last week the Kremlin's Red Square reached all the way back to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow trying to convert The Song of Hiawatha into a Communist ballad for disarmament without inspection or controls...
...always the most beloved-a patient, gentle man with a long flowing beard and a heart as large as a landscape. He was a teacher with so great a gift that Mary Cassatt once said, "He could have taught stones to draw correctly." Though he did not convert the young Paul Cezanne to impressionism, he was responsible for the perception with which Cezanne observed nature, and for his devotion to inner construction. When a pompous friend, expecting him to laugh, took him to an exhibition of Henri Rousseau, Pissarro astonished the gallery by praising the primitive warmly. It was Pissarro...
...POLE VAULT: Marine Dave Tork and ex-Marine John Uelses, both of whom had cleared 16 ft. earlier this year, could not come near that height and failed to qualify. But California's Ron Morris, a new convert to the whippy fiber glass pole, soared over the bar at 16 ft. ¼ in. to provide the U.S. with another favorite against the Russians...