Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's 3.7 billion coffee trees that they plow under. The idea is to cut production back by 20% to match what Brazil really needs for exports and home consumption. At the same time, planters are being encouraged through price supports to convert coffee land to rice, beans, corn and other crops in short supply. To put pressure on big operators, the government has put the lid on currency inflation, there by trimming Brazilian shippers' export earnings by 25% -40%. Says one U.S. observer: "This has the coffee people scared as hell." The I.C.O., for its part...
...William Post, a farm-machinery salesman, in 1893 concocted the first batch of Postum out of wheat, molasses and bran on his kitchen stove in Battle Creek, Mich., where he had gone to boost his strength in a sanitarium run by his future rival, John Harvey Kellogg, creator of corn flakes. Post followed Postum up with Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. He taught his only child the business, had her sit in on directors' meetings at the age of eleven, took her along on factory tours (and incidentally taught her boxing). When she married Socialite Edward B. Close...
...They were warned to expect terrorist attacks, told never to travel at night for fear of ambush, and informed about the standoffish peasants' social and religious taboos. The most arduous aspect of the course was learning the language from three Vietnamese instructors (heo is pig, bap is corn, ga is chicken, and farmer is a tongue-twisting nguoi lam ruong). Kiddingly, the agents asked their Vietnamese teachers how to say "I surrender"-and were haughtily ignored by the tough former army men. After 450 hours of study, the volunteers feel they have barely grasped the hang of basic Vietnamese...
...unspoiled countryside and other low-priced attractions, including the first "bunny" clubs in Communist Europe. Yugoslavia is prospering economical ly, thanks largely to Tito's imaginative agricultural and industrial reforms. Yugoslavia claims an extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from a sixto a five...
...gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday on Dec. 22. And even though Lyndon Johnson was putting in non-recuperative hours-conferring with Cabinet officers, working on his State...