Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth the price of a pro contract. "The public will no longer pay to see the amateur champions when I add them to my troupe. Without the benefit of years of toughening competition, they are no match for the established pros, and each year's new crop looks weaker and weaker." Kramer's answer: give amateurs the kind of seasoning they need, in open tournament competition against the pros...
...American League has probably never seen anything like this year's fantastic crop of rookies, many of whom will be crucial in strengthening teams which the Red Sox beat out last season. At Kansas City Manny Jimenes still leads the league with a .372 B.A.; at Los Angeles Do Belintsky has become the nucleus of a much improved pitching staff; most frightening for Boston, Richie Rollins and Bernie Allen along with the acquisition of Vic Power have converted Minnesota into a team the Sox cannot hope to beat...
Picking Up the Pieces. With his entry into grain storage, Estes acquired another partner-the U.S. Government. Grain storage is an appendage of federal price-support programs. A farmer who gets a Government price-support "loan" on a crop of grain deposits the grain
...lands on earth, a steaming, lush thicket the size of New Mexico. Although much of Ivory Coast (pop. 3,500,000) consists of juju and squalid villages, it is moving ahead at a breathtaking pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices), and towering construction cranes cut the skyline as sleek little skyscrapers of reinforced concrete...
...Horizontal Lieutenant. A dogface farce that may not fracture any funny bones but manages to pile up a bumper crop of nuts on a Pacific island. It stars Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton, who are surely the most promising romanticomedians around...