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JOSEPH D. CORN...
...said, "That's Bill Scherle, he's agriculture," Brezhnev leaped at Scherle, looking up a full head above himself. How are crop prospects? Brezhnev wanted to know. Yes, he remembered Roswell Garst, who lives in Scherle's district, the man who had brought hybrid seed corn to Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would be in 1975-he would like Richard Nixon around to take him out to the corn belt for a firsthand look...
Quemoy was once a barren outpost, but Chiang Kai-shek is said to have decreed in 1951: "Make it green." So the Nationalists have planted 70 million seedling trees, mostly Australian pine. They have since added bananas, mangoes, pears and apples. There are fields of corn and sorghum that help to make the island's 62,000 civilian inhabitants self-sufficient. The island even has a frail industrial base, a pottery plant and a liquor distillery. "For the soldiers, we have a lot of peanut candy shops and billiard parlors," a guide remarks...
...bogeyed the last two holes to lose by two strokes. In 1972, Johnny had enough close finishes to win $99,348 and a reputation as the brightest of the ascending golf stars. Johnny looked the role, a lean (6 ft. 2½ in., 170 lbs.) golden boy with long corn-silk locks. He had a pretty wife and two handsome children. He sported a flashy wardrobe, drove a Ford Thunderbird and started golf camps in Utah and Scotland. His golf swing was solid-"the best on the tour," said Jack Nicklaus...
...strangeness of Cornwall Coombe seems to center on the ritualistic way in which the town's corn is planted and harvested. Every seven years a young farmer is chosen to be Harvest Lord, and he in turn chooses a Corn Maiden to preside with him over these rituals. For the seven years of his reign the Harvest Lord is honored with gifts, free labor, respect. After that, well, it's sheer happenstance, of course, but there don't seem to be any former Har vest Lords around, only an extra ordinary number of placid widows...