Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the long suspense ended. The world's most powerful atom smasher, which will generate 200 billion electron volts of energy, will be built in Weston, Ill., a tiny (pop. 400) village 35 miles west of Chicago. A corn-belt community that began as a housing development only seven years ago, Weston is in for some very big changes. Its growth was stunted when the original promoter ran into financial difficulty and pulled out, and it remains so undeveloped today that it has no doctor, no school, no movie house, not even a store...
...have long suspected, they have learned that there is much more to the obscure star than meets the eye. In an article in Nature, Astrophysicist Frank Low, 33, and Rice University Graduate Student Bruce Smith, 23, report that R Monocerotis (R designates the star; Monocerotis is Latin for uni corn) may well be a vigorous young star surrounded by the beginnings of a planetary system...
Disney always maintained that he made films not for children but for "honest adults." He was pleased when the enormously successful Disneyland was dubbed "Disney's Golden Cornfield," and said defiantly, "We're selling corn. And I like corn." Though most of his later "real-life" nature movies-The Living Desert, Beaver Valley, Water Birds-were imaginative documentary films, some critics protested that he spoiled them with gimmicks. And though historical pictures like Davey Crockett were also big hits, Disney was again criticized for sugar-coating his history...
...DECADE OF STILL LIFE by Aaron Bohrod. 298 pages. University of Wisconsin Press. $20. Skulls, bananas, ears of corn, scythes, walnuts, pottery, furry toys-almost anything may turn up in Bohrod's rich collage-like paintings. This collection-three of them TIME covers-represents the artist's maturity and is, like Bohrod himself, fresh and distinctly American...
...rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...