Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iowa, where endless acres of plump corn awaited harvest last week, the GOP is looking forward to a bumper crop of its own. The latest polls give Richard Nixon a 2-to-l lead over Hubert Humphrey. The GOP also has hopes of capturing the Governor's mansion, both state houses, and six of Iowa's seven seats in the House of Representatives. To avert a total rout, dejected Democrats are looking to a lone champion, Governor Harold E. Hughes, 46, a craggy-jawed former truck driver who is battling hard to avoid being buried under an anti...
...display include rather more than a fair share of failures. Paradoxically, the uneven quality may even enhance Kline's reputation. Few artists could hope to survive such a warts-and-all survey. Yet undeniably the powerful radicalism of the mustachioed Pennsylvanian comes across-though sometimes as crude as corn whisky, and sometimes as bombastic as soapbox oratory...
Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind...
When families went in to get their commodities, they found that the Agriculture workers were giving them whatever happened to be overproduced by American farms that month. When the surplus was corn or flour or other relatively wholesome staples, things worked out. But sometimes, the surplus items didn't happen to match with what the families needed to eat. One month two years ago, families walked away from the Commodities office with 25-pound sacks of peanuts. Another time in 1964 the total monthly distribution consisted of beets and celery. Even in the best months, there is an obvious lack...
...GONNA BE A COUNTRY GIRL AGAIN (Vanguard). Buffy Sainte-Marie isn't fooling anyone. She has always been a country girl at heart. Her marvelously adaptable voice takes on a down home inflection, as if she had been raised on corn dodgers and redeye gravy. The best cut is Uncle Joe, a traditional square dance tune in which Buffy starts off playing the mouth bow, followed by a gradual buildup of banjo, bass and fiddle until the entire backing group is involved. The biggest disappointment is Now That the Buffalo's Gone. The waltz tempo with lilting guitar...