Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...related) 75 miles from Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's family was struggling until the Shah launched his land reform in 1963. The family received 125 acres under a complicated system that bars it from subdividing the land into small, uneconomic plots but provides a good income. Mashhadi Nik-Dehghan's crop of grapes and apples last year earned him $9,000, four times Iran's per capita income. Other programs have provided his town with a paved road, a clinic, a school and self-rule through a village council set up by Tehran. Nik-Dehghan's son Zakriya can read...
Geraldine Waterbury of Gridley, Calif., turned to farming after raising a family and has just produced the largest crop yield of kiwi fruit in the state's history-15 tons per acre. She markets them at $2 per lb. to the Japanese, who consider the fuzzy fruit a rare delicacy. Tom O'Toole, a Detroit tinkerer, has invented a single-cup coffee brewer that he has begun to market to the Japanese. Next he will send them his production molds, which are priced at $90,000 and produce up to 15,000 brewers a day. Tolona Pizza Products...
...weather. The summer, among the coldest and wettest in memory, was a cruel one for the Pinot grapes of the Côte d'Or, the narrow Burgundy slope that produces some of the world's finest wines. Lack of sunshine prevented proper fecundation, resulting in a crop that is little more than half the size of 1977's. Yet a remarkably dry Indian summer enabled vintners to delay the harvest two or three weeks and let the grapes grow plump and sweet. Louis Latour, head of the Burgundy Producers' Association, predicts that 1978, while...
Harvard men's swimming coach Joe Bernal's recruiting net, its bait sweetened by January's completion of Blodgett Pool and by the aquamen's outstanding record last season, has harvested a crop of freshmen fish rivaled in Harvard history only by 1977's record haul...
...freshman crop is led by breastroker Adele Joel, who has already set one pool record. Breastrokers have been a rare breed for the women's swim team and her arrival will give the swimmers much needed depth. "We finally have a breastroker, after three years of trying," Walsh exulted yesterday...