Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago-area Jewel Food Stores, the items on one stretch of shelf space stand in drab contrast to the rest of the brightly colored, elaborately packaged brands. The cans and packages, in uniformly dull black, white and olive labeling, bear only the unadorned name of the product-corn flakes, tomato juice, applesauce-in blunt, stencil-like lettering. Yet these no-name groceries have become hot items, and they could herald a change in the way that Americans shop. Reason: prices of the generic-name groceries range 10% to 35% below those of comparable brand-name products, and even undercut Jewel...
DIED. Roswell Garst, 79, Iowa farmer who played host to Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier's 1959 visit to the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Carroll, Iowa. A pioneer in corn growing and cattle-feeding techniques, Garst arranged the first sale of U.S. corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot...
Harv at Yale Dart at Penn Col at Brown Corn at Prince Season's Record...
...bills. Among them: the granting of broad presidential authority to reorganize the Executive Branch and to create a Department of Energy, the first Cabinet addition since 1966; a quick tax cut to stimulate the economy; a strip-mining bill; new clean-air provisions; increased price supports on wheat and corn; a hefty increase in the minimum wage; a limited program of public works jobs. In foreign affairs, Congress voted against automatically cutting off U.S. aid to nations that violate the basic rights of their citizens; it left these decisions in the President's hands. In matters of defense, it went...
Penn at Harv Yale at Prince Brown at Dart Colum at Corn Season's Record MIKE SAVIT Harvard, 20-8 Yale, 16-7 Brown, 21-17 Columbia, 31-30 22-6 (.786) ROB SIDORSKY Harvard, 15-0 Yale, 27-17 Brown, 20-17 Columbia, 35-27 20-8 (.714) DAVE CLARKE Harvard, 20-17 Yale, 28-17 Dartmouth, 21-17 Columbia, 28-24 20-8 (.714) JOHN DONLEY Penn, 24-20 Yale, 35-14 Brown, 21-20 Cornell, 28-27 20-8 (.714) BILL SCHEFT Penn, 17-14 Yale, 28-10 Dartmouth, 28-24 Columbia...