Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most numerous of the anti-Nixon forces are the surfers. Two of the best surfing spots in California, The Trestles and Cotton Point, have been closed to them for security purposes. The local paper, the San Clemente Sun-Post, and Surfing magazine, whose publisher John Severson lives next door to Nixon, have mounted a campaign to reopen the surfing beaches. They have enlisted an unlikely ally in their cause: Governor Ronald Reagan...
...corn farmers, may be unable to collect. Businessmen in small towns will suffer. The retail price of starch and corn syrup-products derived from the 15% of the corn crop not used for feed-will rise almost immediately; corn oil probably will not because it competes directly with cotton and soybean oil. The five-month supply of corn held by the Commodity Credit Corp. should also help limit price rises...
...Washington is that of boss. The Government is by far the nation's biggest employer. Its payrolls cover 2,600,000 people (not counting the military services) who perform almost every conceivable variety of job. The range runs through the alphabet from architect to zoologist and includes beauticians, cotton classifiers, archaeologists and even funeral directors. In years past, the Government had a reputation as a model employer, but, says A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "those days are long past." To many of his workers, Uncle Sam appears as a stingy, incurably bureaucratic, highhanded and neglectful boss...
With Hollywood scrambling to exploit every current trend, "soul" movies were probably inevitable. Enter Cotton Comes to Harlem, a meretricious thriller that should offend the sensibilities of any audience-black or white...
...Cambridge is a terribly funny comedian and a terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very black because the money is hidden in a bale of Mississippi cotton, and the pursuing detectives crash into a watermelon stand, and everybody goes around saying "nigger" and "Is that black enough for you?" Biggest joke: when the detectives discover that a white man was in on the heist, Cambridge rumbles, "Honkies in the woodpile...