Word: farm
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Rocky and his task force of 21 experts landed running. He hosted a breakfast for Argentine businessmen, met with local farm officials, and consulted with Foreign Minister Juan Martin and Economics Minister Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore. At noon, Rocky was off to see President Juan Carlos Ongania for two hours of frank talk in Spanish, which Rockefeller speaks well. While the members of his task force, armed with tape recorders, fanned out to talk with local counterparts in fields as diverse as exports and hospitals, the Governor huddled in secret with antigovernment students. It was a caustic session. The students...
Died. Brian Jones, 26, grass-and-groupie-plagued rock musician, lead guitarist for Britain's Rolling Stones until his pullout last month in a dispute over the group's future musical direction; by drowning; in his swimming pool at Crotchford Farm in Hartfield, Sussex, the 15th-century farmhouse where A. A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh. A onetime garbage collector, Jones was musically memorable for his driving guitar in such hits as This Could Be the Last Time and It's All Over Now. Twice convicted on marijuana charges, he was severely fined but spared a nine...
...this makes it difficult for Cunningham to rub out his last man (Sterling Hayden), who lives on a farm and has a disconcerting habit of holding seminars on ethics in his wheat field. Audiences will be kept in stupefying suspense wondering whether Coburn will ever get around to killing Hayden, but by the time just about everybody rides into the sunset on a gypsy wedding wagon, who could care...
...basic plot is quite simple. Alexander Gartempe is a farmer, a hard-working farmer (because of his shrewish wife La Grande's relentless driving) who has acquired some 300 acres--quite a farm by American, let alone French, standards--which he must cultivate. By himself, of course...
...know is, he's a person and I treat 'em all the same way." That is, with the same brutal indifference that he once applied to sides of beef in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. "When I was training, I got to thinkin' way back to the farm in Beaufort, S.C.," recalled Frazier, one of 14 children. "I thought about the days I ate raw turnip butts and radishes with dirt on 'em. Then I thought about how I will retire undefeated with a million dollars and go into business as a singer." He thought, too, about Quarry...