Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large Portuguese community (400,000 people) in South Africa. That is not the only place where mercenaries are being sought. An ad in the Fresno, Calif., Bee last week advertised for "mercenaries, activities in Africa ... military background a must." The ad was placed by David Bufkin, 38, a crop duster and former G.I. who said he had been hired by "Portuguese interests" to recruit 300 Americans for UNITA and the F.N.L.A. ($1,200 a month for a one-year stint...
...agriculture catastrophe. The most obvious targets were Agriculture Minister Dimitri Polyansky and Fyodor Kulakov, chief of the party's agricultural department. Both men have been touted as possible successors to Brezhnev, but it is now possible that their careers have been as badly blighted as the grain crop they supervised this year...
QUARTERBACK. Craig Penrose, San Diego State, 6 ft. 3 in., 213 lbs. In what the scouts see as only a fair crop of quarterbacks, Penrose is the only highly regarded prospect. The kind of drop-back, stay-in-the-pocket passer that the pros like, Penrose completed 57% of his passes and threw for 15 touchdowns this season at San Diego...
Another great source of pride for Hall is the crop of ice skaters that Manter Hall has churned out over the years. The school admitted its first girl, Tenly Albright, "around 1950," because she could not find a girls' school which would permit her to shape her studying around her rigorous ice skating schedule. She later became a world figure skating champion, and went on to Radcliffe and Harvard Medical School. Ever since, Manter Hall has produced a steady stream of ice skaters because it allows them scheduling flexibility. Girls now comprise 40 per cent of the student body...
...Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought in $1 million a week in transit revenues. Because of the fighting and the flight of white settlers, the railroad is closed. So are the iron mines. The coffee crop, most of it rotting on the bushes, will be one-fifth the size of last year's, and diamond production will also drop by more than 50%. Only oil production remains relatively untouched; 120,000 bbl. per day were still being pumped out in the northern enclave of Cabinda...