Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUKE ELLINGTON: MARY POPPINS (Reprise). The Duke leaves all the Hollywood sugar in these twelve pieces from the Disney movie and adds some corn (a growling trumpet, a wah-wah trombone). But there is deftness in most of his gentle transformations, and he seems to enjoy playing with the little pieces. The virtuosos of his big band step forward solemnly to play the songs of Mr. Banks, the children and the chimney sweep, and Saxophonist Paul Gonsalves scampers through Mary Poppins' exultant solo faster than one can say supercalifragilistic-expialidocious...
...Stalin died and was replaced by Khrushchev, Lysenko lost his absolute power. He was fired as president of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences as an increasing number of critics dared to oppose his views. Still, Lysenko had startling survivability. Even though Khrushchev was a great admirer of hybrid corn, the most conspicuous practical triumph of orthodox genetics, he did not cut Lysenko down entirely. Himself a peasant's son, Khrushchev was apparently attracted by Lysenko's rustic methods, and as his personal power grew, he raised Lysenko step by step, put him back in the Institute...
...million). Such income swelled an already bulging cash drawer. At the same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo dog food. American's move was last, but by far the most spectacular...
...limousine are thrown in, courtesy of the current Soviet management, but Khrushchev rarely uses the car to go to the Moscow apartment reserved for his use. Shunning all but his closest friends and family, he spends his time hunting moose and hare, raising prize hogs, and experimenting with hybrid corn he got from Roswell Garst, an Iowa farmer who came...
...Congo caper. "We have sent arms to the Congolese rebels," he boasted, "and we will continue to send arms-because the rebels need the support of all honest nations." Inferring a U.S. threat to cut off $140 million a year in aid to Egypt (mostly surplus wheat, corn and frozen chickens), Nasser waxed indignant: "We drink tea seven days a week now: we can cut it to five. We eat meat four days; we can cut it to three. We are people of dignity, and do not accept disdain from anyone." His own tongue somewhat carried away, Egypt...