Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Indira can think about elections, she must deal with a set of dizzying problems that are as big and complex as India itself. The most pressing is food. The worst drought of this century has decimated India's grain harvests. Present estimates place the 1965 crop at less than 75 million tons, a full 13 million tons below the 1964 level...
Under the original idea, land tagged for redistribution was to be thoroughly studied for crop and livestock potential, then paid for at fair value. Belaúnde wisely exempted the big coastal sugar and cotton plantations that produce vital exports; instead, he aimed chiefly at Peru's highlands, where nearly 30 million of 32 million acres suitable for agriculture are held by big absentee landlords. Even then the government promised to set up a system of priorities to ensure that marginal estates were taken before well-managed holdings...
...that Dali had skimped on art for the occasion. On view were his latest works, featuring a spatterdash Homage to Meissonier, which most certainly would not please Meissonier, a 19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history...
...that is growing so big that Castro himself recently fumed: "There are some officials who use their own government vehicles to carry their pounds-little pounds or big pounds-of black market coffee." Sugar may end up 500,000 tons under last year's 6,000,000-ton crop. In a desperate effort to get needed foreign exchange, Castro has launched Cuba's sugar harvest two full months ahead of normal...
Hail Farmer! Indians blame it on scanty rain during last summer's monsoons. Maharashtra state in western In dia reports crop losses as high as 75%. Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and the Punjab, normally big grain-producing states, see serious trouble ahead. Predictably, the shortages have sent grain prices up 30% in the past few months. To curb profiteering by speculators, the government is buying grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search...