Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard, at 6-0, is running in some pretty fast company. There are Bear Bryant's Alabama boys (6-0), the number-one Fighting Irish of Notre Dame (6-0), Big Ten leader Michigan State (7-0), the huge Nebraska Corn-Huskers (7-0), and southern standouts Florida (7-0), and Georgia Tech...
BULLETIN--Iowa corn belt farmers roundly hissed the incumbent governor, who just pushed through a daylight savings time law for the state. The farmers demanded a return to "God's time...
Imelda joined him on the campaign; the two sang duets and applied her corn-padre family connections on his behalf. The Marcos-Macapagal encounter produced some of the fiercest infighting ever seen in a nation that averages 60 murders every election. Macapagal's supporters spread rumors that Imelda had posed in the nude for magazines and blue movies; Marcos accused Macapagal of everything from corruption to ineptitude. When the votes came in last November, Marcos had won by 660,000 votes, out of a total of 7 million...
Rugged IR-8. Marcos has taken the first steps toward defining and defeating these problems. His new Four-Year Plan, which won $21 million worth of support from Washington last month, envisions self-sufficiency in rice and corn production by 1969. His expedients: a combination of improved irrigation systems and more fertilizer plus such superior strains of rice as the rugged IR-8, developed by the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Oct. 7) at the rice institute at Los Ba?...
...with nine feet of annual rainfall and a sunny six-month growing season, the Ivory Coast ranks third among the world's coffee producers, fourth in cocoa. But aware of the dangers of a one-or two-crop economy, Houphouet-Boigny and Saller sponsored land conversion programs for corn, soybeans, peanuts and pineapple...