Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dyusaku Ohno sold his three acres to a development company for $280,000. Now 60, Ohno has his money in good stocks. his children in good schools, his wife in a modern house. But he has lost, he says, "the smell of the earth, the satisfaction of a good crop, the scalding bath at the end of a hard day's work...
Died. João Café Filho, 71, former President of Brazil, who as vice president under Getúlio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro...
...hundred more Brigade members left Canada for Cuba last week to help harvest the crop. Their goal, they say, is to help Cuba achieve sugar production of 10 million tons, which will allow the government to purchase harvesting machines and free the people for "more meaningful" work...
...that tradition. A tall, mustachioed, thirty-six year old bachelor, Miller is the editor-publisher of the Bay State Banner, the small weekly newspaper of the Roxbury community. His story-differing only in degree from those of many fellow black college graduates, proves that not only the recent crop of black collegians are committed to social change...
...enduring system of small landholdings -caused by the absence of a large Indian labor force-which from the earliest colonial times produced a strong, propertied middle class. (Large landholdings did not come into being until the second half of the 19th century, when coffee became the major export crop.) Then, too, there is Costa Rica's historical preoccupation with education, which resulted in a free primary school system as early as 1853. This continuing commitment is reflected in a national budget that currently devotes more than 33% of its $132 million total to schooling, v. only...