Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love Those Mangoes. Sugar is no longer rationed, as it was in 1963. Just about everything else still is-either that, or it appears on a feast-or-famine basis. "Right now," says one resident, "they've got so much corn they can't unload it. They keep saying: 'Eat corn, eat corn.'" Before that, it was eggs, then avocados, then mangoes. "We must find a way to use our mangoes-every single one," pleaded the Communist daily Hoy. Wrote one Cuban to a friend in Miami: "We substitute mangoes for squash, eat fried mangoes, mango...
...nature's familiar, never-ending cycle, water falls to earth as precipitation, seeps underground, flows into lakes and streams, and rushes toward the oceans. Sooner or later, it evaporates back into the air or is given up by plants in the process of transpiration. An acre of corn gives off to the air about 4,000 gallons of water each day. In time, the water returns to the earth again in the form of rain and snow...
...There she goes! Miss A-mair-i-ca!" And so she usually went, as full of creamy sweetness as a marshmallow sundae, still tingling from her exertions on the vibraharp. This time, though the corn was still as high as Bert Parks's eye, somebody changed the stereotype in Atlantic City's Convention Hall. The diadem of Miss America 1966 went to Kansas' uncorny Deborah Bryant, 19, a brown-haired beauty who would look at home on the fashion pages of Town and Country. Eight pounds lighter (115) and one inch taller (5 ft. 7 in.) than...
...dwarfed by the giant buildings that will grow around it." But for many viewers, the closer they approach, the more questions get raised. The solid concrete and marble exteriors of the two office structures seem as forbidding as a medieval keep and have reminded more than one critic of corn silos...
...that he had just won an uncontested divorce from his senses, or that he ought to start proceedings against his agent. After all, Vegas, that bonanza city of the show world, would have paid him $50,000 a week. And what could he make from the likes of the Corn Palace Fair in Mitchell, S.D.? As it turned out: $70,500 in six days...