Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People as Pets. Born 60 years ago in northern California's lush, lettuce-growing Salinas valley, Steinbeck turned the area into a kind of strip-cartoon Yoknapatawpha County, where even the local Snopeses are kind to small animals. At times, the Salinas corn has been as high, if not as dry, as William Saroyan's young eye; at others, the view from Steinbeck's wayward literary bus has resembled Henry Miller's sex-sodden Tropics, minus the belly laughs...
...that he does not want Jack Kennedy's help in Nebraska. When Vice President Lyndon Johnson spoke for a Democratic congressional candidate in Omaha, Morrison pointedly stayed some 400 miles away in Scottsbluff. Morrison also persuaded Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to cancel a scheduled talk at the National Corn Picking Contest in Grand Island; Freeman offered to send a substitute, but the Alpine Yodelers of Monroe, Wis. were scheduled instead...
...same excuse for the virgin lands of northern Kazakhstan, where the harvest would be far below expectations. In the Ukraine, bread basket of the Soviet Union, the wheat crop was "somewhat worse than last year." but party officials hoped to meet their overall grain quota by producing more corn (used for cattle fodder) than last year. The only bright spot that Khrushchev reported was in Great Russia, where a "record" grain harvest was reaped; a record by how much. Nikita discreetly declined...
...have largely removed from the weekly shows the only really objectionable elements they once displayed-miscellaneous sodomists, dope-addicted teen-agers kicking babies, and so on. The overall impression of the new series suggests a great bowl of mentholated cornflakes. There are exceptions, of course, but most of the corn is healthy, the humor and situations are pugnaciously wholesome, and the killing is largely confined to historic battlefields rather than back alleys. The new material is pretty fair; and if some of it is just no good, it is at least...
...Beverly Hillbillies (ABC) are Yokums in Smogpatch, a family whose basic social status is reflected in this joke: "Them pigs got into the corn," says Granny. Says Pa: "Did they drink much?" Oil was found on the hillbillies' land, and they have now moved to a Beverly Hills mansion, where they keep the porcine humor squealing: "What's a smog?" "A smog's a small hog." CBS's hour-long Fair Exchange is about an American family that trades teen-aged daughters with an English family. It is no bargain on either side...