Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harder to answer was a steady, superstitious whispering campaign-supported by nudangs, the female oracles of the Korean countryside-to the effect that military rule was to blame even for crop failures and that "heaven does not favor leaders of short stature and intense nature." Candidate Park criss crossed the country by limousine, chartered an airliner and private railroad car, occasionally made noises about greater independence from the U.S. He was ill at ease in civvies and proved a dull campaigner, once interrupted a speech to plead: "Please give me some applause so that I can take heart...
Maybe a Loss. In the face of acute crop failures throughout the Communist bloc, the U.S. also was counting on a substantial rise in wheat prices and a consequent boost of perhaps $100 million in U.S. farm income. But Canada last week scotched that hope. The Canadians sold Japan 30 million bushels of wheat in a secret deal, promising delivery over the next eight months at a fixed price. Thus, even if a wheat shortage drives world prices higher-as is likely-the Canadians must deliver at the original lower fixed price. And since Japan is one of the biggest...
There are now no fewer than 149,755 private pilots in the U.S., and the day has gone when the only pilots soloing were barnstorming stuntmen or crop dusters. Today's passengers may be wives, sweethearts, best pals or business clients. Inevitably, the chilling question has occurred to them: "What would I do if he blacked...
...Russians want to buy $250 million of wheat to compensate for their disastrous 1963 harvest; the purchase will eliminate more than one-fifth of our current wheat surplus. It will also case fears of an additional $800 million surplus from this year's promising crop. Furthermore, since the wheat will be sold for hard currency or gold, or on short-term credit, the sale will substantially cut our balance of payments deficit...
...guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres as endowment. Though yet to feel the cling of ivy, Raymond has everything else: tutorials for its 124 students, a scholarly faculty of 17, comprehensive exams, and a bold taste for guest speakers from Birchers to Zennists to Martin Luther King. It is generalist to the core. "Students...