Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway season's biggest musical hit has spawned a surefire original-cast recording. Jerry Herman's score repeats his Hello, Dolly! success, this time with Angela Lansbury instead of Carol Channing. The title song contains its own review: "You charm the husk right off of the corn...
...prognosis was confirmed by Peggy's own story, which indicated that Bicycle Bill had long planned to spirit her away. Though she did not know him, he knew her name. The caves where they hid had been stocked with cans of corn and baked beans, which he shared with her. At night when he slept, Bicycle Bill chained her by her neck to a tree, and a couple of times tugged her along by a chain leash. But he did not physically injure her. When after several days Peggy's brown suede shoes wore out, he wrapped...
...from U.N.C.LE. But it is Thailand's endowments that first attack the senses, opulent gifts of nature nurtured by a benign history. In the gentle air and lemony Siamese sunlight, rice, corn and coconut palms flourish, as do 28 kinds of bananas and 750 varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third...
...highways, built with U.S. aid and thick with speeding new cars and gaily painted trucks, reach out into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia...
...creeping up for 25 years, and lately the creep has turned into a sprint. On top of a 6% increase in 1964, farmland prices across the nation jumped another 6% last year, according to the Agriculture Department. In many areas, the gain was even greater. In Iowa's corn belt and Florida's citrus area, land prices have climbed 10% in the past year. Crop land in Sedgwick County, Kans., now brings $400 an acre, 32% more than it did only two years...