Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picking corn. He was watching. "It was not love at first sight," recalls Stuart Fuller-Sandys, 50, of his first glimpse of Margaret Dube, 22. "Love came later like a deluge." There was only one serious complication: she was black, and he was white. On the front pages of every Southern Rhodesia paper last week was the fairytale romance of the rich, widowed white rancher to the penniless darky daughter of one of his squatter tenants. It began in 1961, and had Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons...
...rustle of spring to a growing horde of enthusiasts is the sound of skis knifing through good corn snow. Spring skiing is the latest-and many say the greatest-form of snow fun, and it is bringing out a new breed of bum and bunny in Europe...
Spring snow is usually corn-rough granules made by alternate melting and freezing-considered by many to provide the best combination of speed and maneuverability there is. "If I were taking a skiing vacation," says weather-leathered Dave McCoy, developer of Mammoth, "I'd take it in the spring. You're assured of longer days and better weather. It's a more leisurely time of year, and the snow is terrific...
...year 2020. As far off as that may seem, it is too close for the "Big W." Weyerhaeuser is now developing a revolutionary supertree that will be impervious to disease, perfectly shaped and full-grown in only 40 years. "We control the size of peas and the tenderness of corn," says a Weyerhaeuser scientist. "Why not a test-tube forest...
...redeeming comic episode of the show is the muscular seduction of a D'humian intellectual by a girl called Sue Ann Rockefellow (Mary Louise Wilson), whose clincher in the clinch is, "Shim, you have a friend at Chase Manhattan." As the corn-pone Congressman says, "You fellahs should have known what was going to happen when you sent overdeveloped girls into underdeveloped countries...