Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names on the marquees, however, more productions than ever will feature old ones. The prevalence of adaptations reflects the theater's stagnation, and there is a deep reluctance to grapple with controversial, contemporary issues. And the new season's crop of sniggering bedroom comedies argues that Broadway cannot even deal maturely with...
...time Perón was deposed in 1955, the landowners were reeling; with far less land and fewer gauchos, they had to become ranchers again. Strange terms like fertilizers, crop rotation, weed killers and permanent pastures crept into the pampas vocabulary...
...Chicago Bears pro football team: the 31st annual College All-Star game, 28-17, before 65,000 fans in Soldier Field, Chicago. The burly Na tional Football League champions were out to restore the pros' pride tarnished in 1963 when the collegians (actually the year's crop of pro rookies) rudely upset the Green Bay Packers. But for the first 30 minutes it looked as if an other upset was in the making. With Miami Quarterback George Mira tossing bombs and Arizona State Halfback Charlie Taylor crunching through the line, the All Stars actually...
...eastern city of Santiago, where Castro started his revolution, the visiting newsmen were treated to the kind of is-everybody-happy circus that Communists specialize in. Though the Cuban economy goes from bad to worse (this year's sugar crop may not equal last year's 3,800,000 tons, only half the pre-Castro harvest), Santiago restaurants were filled with food; bands played, and carnival crowds were on parade. In high good humor, Castro drove through the streets, chatted with local officials, even sidearmed a few baseballs to two of the reporters in a local stadium...
...river fleets were antiquated. Increased costs forced planners to forgo reinvestment and research. The demand for factory labor trimmed the country's farm population from 3,300,000 to 1,300,000, often left the farms to be run by women, and helped sow the seeds for chronic crop shortages...