Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then lead them on forays against the Communist raiders that are filtering across the border in increasing numbers. In Hawaii, the 25th Infantry Division is trained in the stealthy art of jungle warfare. During maneuvers, men of the 25th drill on techniques of getting along with native tribes, eat roots and insects served up by their buddies masquerading as witch doctors and chiefs. Dug in on the hillsides of Korea, the ist Cavalry and 7th Infantry divisions guard the battle-torn border...
...much of the non-Communist world has experienced a startling agricultural revolution. Machines are replacing men in the fields; with countless innovations, science has vastly increased the yield of the earth. But at a time when the U.S. is glutted with food, Western Europe produces more than it can eat, and per capita farm production rises steadily even in such "underdeveloped" countries as Burma, Thailand and Formosa, the Communist bloc is beset by agricultural troubles that result in belt tightening and hunger...
...Dean of Faculties Jacques Barzun gloomily contends that, in fact, the age is witnessing an end to Art. Says Barzun, writing in the British monthly Encounter: "The Romantic worship of art, having lost its purpose, heads towards self-extinction. The nations of the West now resemble those tribes that eat their gods to get the good there is in them...
...down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...Please don't eat the wisteria, the U.S. Public Health Service warned, in effect. The pods of wisteria vines, particularly in the South, where the plants grow profusely, make children severely ill with vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal swelling...