Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assist at landing a job after graduation. If a high school star is good enough to look forward to a pro career, McKay lets it drop that 27 former U.S.C. players-more graduates than from any other college-are now playing in the big league. While winnowing the yearly crop of 500 or more prospects down to a choice 25, McKay and his trusty computer are quick to spot and reject a possible malcontent. "The wheeze about building character is a joke," he says. "Most boys we get are 18. Their character has long since been built, usually...
South Viet Nam's real potential for future prosperity rests on its farms. Agriculturally, it is one of Asia's most fertile countries, and despite the ruin of many farm areas, the green revolution brought about by fast-growing "miracle rice" enabled South Vietnamese farmers to harvest a crop last year that was 25% greater than in 1965?although 10% fewer acres were cultivated...
...their grasp of the larger affairs of state is that they spend so much of their two-year terms trying to get reelected. It can be a draining, humbling and sometimes compromising rite. The process does, however, keep Congressmen close to the people, and it produces a biennial crop of interesting political personalities. Herewith the pick of the 435 races now being contested...
...Spivak's indefatigable dedication to the program. "He wakes up with his motors racing," says Spivak's key aide, Associate Producer Betty Dukert. "When he takes a vacation," observes a friend, "it's likely to be a Governors' Conference, so he can scout the crop while he 'relaxes...
...Stewart is one of the two or three finest and most popular of the current crop of English pop composer-singers, a wise, witty, upbeat force who neatly counterpoints Mick Jagger's pervading and well-publicized sympathy for the devil. As a soloist, Stewart displays one of those rare voices-a raspy, surcharged cross between Joe Cocker and Rod McKuen-that is instantly recognizable and that can draw all sorts of emotional magic from his own songs (Maggie May, Every Picture Tells a Story) as well as standards by Dylan (Only a Hobo) and Elton John (Country Comfort...