Word: corne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despite occasional moments of sentimentality, sequences of conventional childish pranks, and stock characters like fat, cruel aunts and foolish uncles, the movie is a sensitive and poignant expression of a little boy's dreams and frustrations. With an oddly appealing combination of keen insight and good, old-fashioned corn, it explores his reactions to the changes in his life during one summer...
From Peking to Prague, Communism's chronic farm problem regularly produces a bumper crop of discontent. The outstanding exception is Poland, which last year enjoyed the best harvest in its history, doubled a projected 4% increase in gross agricultural production. Compared with 1960, the yield per acre of corn jumped from 204 bushels...
...sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham brought his "Crusade for Christ" to the Roman Catholic heartland of South America. No city...
...farm economy," said Kennedy in his message to Congress, "will resume unless prompt action is taken." The Administration claims to have halted that drift last year with emergency programs-but its plan went awry. The Government's offer of subsidies to farmers for cutting their normal acreage of corn or sorghum was intended to cut feed grain production heavily at a cost of about $500 million. Secretary Freeman maintains that the cut amounted to 800 million bushels as planned, but the program's cost-$768 million-suggests that efficient farmers were able, with the help of unusually good...