Word: corns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conservative Reluctance. His closest rival is Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year...
...department's first finds was an invalid's food called Sustagen. A mix of skim-milk powder, soybean flour, corn oil, minerals and vitamins, Sustagen was designed for hospital patients unable to eat solid foods. It worked so well at giving patients the illusion of having eaten a solid meal and killing off between-meal hunger pangs that last year Mead Johnson decided to call it Metrecal and put it out as a weight-reducing food. The chief change was to recommend a limit of 900 calories (i.e., one 8-oz. can, dry weight) of Metrecal...
...Aquanauts (CBS), a new series, turned out to be sea-horse opera of the first water about a pair of professional divers. The first episode got them into a struggle to outdo another diver in collecting manganese deposits off Hawaii. It could have been so much submarine corn if the show had not been crisply written and cleanly shot, and well swum by Actors Keith Larsen and Jeremy Slate. Aquanauts' chase scenes take on an odd, ballet quality 35 fathoms down, and the special language of the skindivers is at least less rusty than the dialogue that comes...
...basis of the new crop reports, the next Secretary of Agriculture would have to abandon Benson's assumption that lower federal price supports automatically lead to smaller crops and thereby get rid of gluts. When Congress let Benson test that assumption on corn last year-trimming the support price and abolishing the acreage controls-farmers expanded corn acreage by 15%. They harvested the biggest, most glutting corn crop in U.S. history. Farmers have again put just as much acreage into corn, and another corn glut is in pros pect...
...followers, Mort Sahl represents a new and growing feeling, described rather breathlessly by Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as "a mounting restlessness and discontent, an impatience with clichés and platitudes, a resentment against the materialist notion that affluence is the answer to everything, a contempt for banality and corn-in short, a revolt against pomposity. Sahl's popularity is a sign of a yearning for youth, irreverence, trenchancy, satire, a clean break with the past...