Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. Offering the season's lushest crop of crass, Walter Matthau leers, sneers and swaggers as an ambulance-chasing lawyer who cons his brother-in-law (Jack Lemmon) into faking an insurance claim in Director Billy Wilder's latest jab at American mores...
...personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop has been a disaster...
Nevertheless, the Administration has made it clear that aid on such a scale cannot go on forever. This year, out of the entire U.S. wheat crop, one-fourth (9,000,000 tons) went to India. For weeks, there had been no word on whether the U.S. plans to sign another wheat agreement with India - to replace one that expires Dec. 31. The long delay reflected the White House view that India could be moving faster in modernizing its agriculture and that other countries must share the burden by providing grain, fertilizer or the hard currency...
Piecemeal Projects. Discouraging flaws crop up everywhere. Last week the President's National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children complained that a $250 million summer-school program for 2,500,000 deprived children was accomplishing nothing. "Projects are piecemeal and fragmented," said the council. "It is extremely rare to find strategically planned, comprehensive programs for change based on needs." Teachers were uninterested. Administrators were of questionable quality-one said blithely, "It's no use trying to do anything for these jigs." Money was wasted on unused equipment...
Like most of the current crop, Lane's book is essentially a staggering accumulation of minutiae and half-truths based on minutiae. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, himself a critic of the commission, has dismissed Lane's opus as "peripheral and indiscriminate," concluded: "Great trial lawyers, like great detectives, have an instinct for the jugular; Mr. Lane has an instinct for the capillaries...