Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heifetz." At Southern Illinois University, where former Metropolitan Opera Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, confined to a wheelchair by polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when I see these corn-fed kids belting that opera like pros." U.C.L.A. writing students will never forget hearing Novelist Isherwood confess that there were pages in one of his novels "that even I can no longer decipher...
Fresh in from Avalon, Ohio (pronounced Uh-hia), to attend a corn-fed Manhattan postal convention, Evie (Geraldine Page) coyly introduces herself: "I'm a postmaster. Suppose I ought to say postmistress, but that sounds a bit racy." Desperately folksy, she calls the bellhop "Shorty," greets the switchboard operator with: "You sound as if your name ought to be Virginia...
...Then Cam and 35 other metallurgists hit the Ho Chi Minh Trail, set up a secret Viet Cong iron foundry in Kontum province. Cam built kilns and smelted the ore from nearby iron deposits to make grenades and mines. He was captured by Vietnamese Rangers one day while gathering corn...
...Pepsi-Cola ad-and Herman W. Lay began thinking. Not about downing a soft drink but about acceding to a hard-to-resist proposal from Pepsi (estimated 1964 sales: $240 million) to merge with his Frito-Lay, Inc., which last year sold $184 million worth of such snacks as corn and potato chips, dip mixes, candied popcorn, pretzels and related products. At 55, Lay isn't so old. But Pepsi President Donald M. Kendall is only 43, and he is surrounded by a youthfully energetic executive team. "I like those fellas," said Lay. "I need the association of younger...
...Blending corn with cajolery, the President urged them to "join hands with your Government in a voluntary partnership." Appealing to their "progressive enlightened self-interest," he urged them to make "tougher" decisions to "postpone, to redirect or to refinance activities in the developed world." Said the President: "I want you to go back to your offices and call to your desk your financial men and your economists and your comptrollers and your vice presidents, and I would hope that you would ask them in a reasonable way to consult with you every time they face a decision that involves spending...