Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soul is acting and being yourself- doing your thing, naturally. Like, I eat chitlins, yams, greens and corn bread because I dig them, not because I am black or have any false illusions that these "soul foods" will make me soulful. Soul is being, not trying...
...private homes, get free medical attention at Cambridgeport Clinic and legal aid from volunteer lawyers. To keep the hippies busy, Parks Commissioner John Warner has supplied tools to clear 25 debris-cluttered city lots. Self-styled Hippie Agronomist John MacConnell, 30, a Syracuse University dropout, plans to plant corn in the lots because he thinks that "everyone should have a chance to eat sweet corn out of a garden...
...more by local stations, the College Queen Pageant might possibly be remembered for two slight distinctions. First, the new queen, Valerie Dickerson, 21, from San Jose State College in California, was the only Negro among the 50 contestants. Second, the show is sponsored by the Best Foods Division of Corn Products Inc., which is stunningly appropriate...
Royal Saleslady. Like all network pageant winners, College Queen Dickerson will spend the next year posing for magazine ads and giving testimonials on behalf of the sponsor. In addition to such prizes as a new convertible, a trip to Europe and ten shares of Corn Products stock (worth $390 as of last week), she will also earn $100 for each day that she performs as a royal saleslady. The current Miss America, Kansas' Debra Dene Barnes, will pick up $100,000 this year for presiding at the opening of a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant or perching on the fender...
Martha Peterson, L.H.D., president of Barnard College. Out of Kansas she came, fresh as the morning dew, tall as the corn in stature, and in her thinking as wide as the plain. Into the maelstrom of Morningside Heights steps the strong and kind Miss Peterson . . . wise and understanding friend of students...