Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Mellaart's discoveries in the late 1950s, there was a surge into the market of "Hacilar" artifacts that some archaeologists attributed to illicit excavating in the area. But doubts about the authenticity of some of the "Hacilar" material began to crop up in 1965, when the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford bought a two-headed ceramic vase on the London antiquities market. The style was distinctively that of Hacilar; but at the same time, at least three similar vases were sold for as much as $7,200 to collections in Europe and America. This coincidence, combined with several...
...Miss America Pageant. Criticized as lily-white by civil rights groups, demonstrated against by Women's Lib, condescended to by intellectuals and the New York Times (which has been known to spare two paragraphs deep inside to report the winner), Miss America annually blooms like a crop of late summer corn. The second Saturday night in September always finds more than 60 million televiewers tuning in as, live from Atlantic City, Bert Parks opens the last envelope, milks the last drop of suspense, announces the winner and launches the pageant's theme song: There...
...sorts of seemingly minor problems, such as a white parent's lack of experience in combing a black child's kinky hair ("There's just no way to do it gently," says Urban Planner Thomas Nutt). Another danger: stereotyped ideas of black intelligence that may crop up when an adopted child is the only black in his school and neither his teacher nor his classmates expect him to do well. Both blacks and whites are wary of civil rights crusaders willing to sacrifice a child to prove a point or to promote integration. "A child should...
...York's Senator Jacob Javits: "Sure, there is always a touch of arrogance. But it is not empty. He's got something to back it up that commands respect." Richardson revamped the congressional liaison staff and spends more time than Finch did in coddling Congressmen. When differences crop up, they tend now to exonerate Richardson and attribute the problems to White House demands...
Millions of acres have been abandoned. Much of the vital jute export crop, due for harvest now, lies rotting in the fields; little of that already harvested is able to reach the mills. Only a small part of this year's tea crop is salvageable. More than 300,000 tons of imported grain sits in the clogged ports of Chittagong and Chalna. Food markets are still operating in Dacca and other cities, but rice prices have risen 20% in four months...