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Nevertheless the Hansens receive a steady flow of regular customers between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It this year's crop is typical. Pam and Bruce will close shop sometime between their 200th and 250th sale...
Harvard again netted a bumper crop of freshmen this year with Annie Wilson and Allison Greis, the early-season standouts. Wilson has already qualified for four events at the Easterns, and Greis has earned a championship berth in seven events...
Central Asia and Siberia, and was lucky enough to be able to proclaim a bumper wheat crop for 1956. In 1960 he succeeded Marshal Kliment Voroshilov in the post of Soviet President. Brezhnev took advantage of the undemanding job to travel widely outside the U.S.S.R. as a spokesman for Khrushchev's foreign policy. In 1964 he was a member of the conspiracy against his former mentor that forced Khrushchev into retirement. Brezhnev's reward: the high-ranking post of First Secretary of the Communist Party. In 1966 Brezhnev assumed the grander title of General Secretary that had been...
...record crop buries farmers
...farmers broke alltime records this fall for corn, wheat and soybeans, harvesting more than 13 billion bu. of the three crops combined. They grew another 1.94 billion bu. of oats, barley and grain sorghum. But elevators, silos and bins are already swelling with a 4.39 billion-bu. carryover from last year's bumper crop. Although new storage facilities are being built at a record rate, they will not be enough to hold this year's harvest. Empty barges and railroad hoppers, airplane hangars, even high school football fields and city streets are being pressed into service as makeshift...