Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appetite for Hollywood movies is so insatiable that studio backlogs of old films are almost used up. And thanks to the film industry's 1968 rating system, the recent crop of pictures available to television is laced with more explicit scenes of sex and violence. As a result, TV censors have felt compelled to work overtime. "We look for three things," says NBC's Herminio Traviesas, vice president in charge of broadcast standards. "Violence, sex and language. Knowing the value of TV sales, I wish producers would find more suitable scripts in the future...
...with meals. For the first time since Prohibition, table wines in 1969 outsold sweet wines such as sherry, port and muscatel in the U.S. California produces 75% of the wine consumed in the nation and 85% of the U.S. output. Grapes have become the state's largest cash crop (ahead of tomatoes and cotton), and the price of land in choice viticultural areas has doubled in the past five years...
...STORY of herbicide use in Vietnam is still incomplete-crop destruction by chemical spraying is still being used as a war tactic by the U.S. this year. However, the U.S. government has announced that no new chemicals are presently being bought, so that only existing stocks are being used; presumably, herbicide use will finally end soon. But the military use of herbicides in Vietnam is not new, and its lasting effects will be felt long after a change in American war policy...
...herbicides have been used in Vietnam in large quantities. They are called Orange, White, and Blue, names derived from the color of paint identifying the drums during shipping from the United States to Vietnam. Orange and White are primarily used to clear forest land, while Blue is used for crop destruction. Orange has been the most extensively used, accounting for about sixty per cent of the herbicide-treated land. Its usage was stopped by the Department of Defense in April 1970 after laboratory tests showed one of its ingredients, 2,4,5-T, to cause gross physical defects in animals...
Blue is used for crop destruction primarily, acting very effectively against grasses and rice. Blue contains derivatives of arsenic compounds, and the HAC is now working out laboratory tests which should be able to detect traces of these compounds in human hair; that way, the interaction of the herbicides with the human food chain should be clarified, and some of the long-lasting effects of the herbicides may become known...