Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning, results were good, but then the Communists began to take a bigger share of the farm's produce. There were interminable, time-consuming party discussions, but little fertilizer, no tractors. Because they had collaborated with the Communists, the farmers of Victoria were ostracized by their neighbors. "They called us Soviet pigs," says Zofia Szczygiel, president of the Victoria collective...
...mouth once too often. In the fall of 1950 he called some of his teammates "moronic malcontents" and "juvenile delinquents." He was promptly traded to Cleveland. In 1953, just as soon as they could get a catcher to take his place, the Indians sent Birdie to the Cleveland farm in Indianapolis to start his career as a manager...
Born on a farm outside Plainview, Texas, Country Boy Dean worked at cleaning neighbors' henhouses and picking cotton. Sundays he would sit at an old upright and play religious and "inspirational" songs. After a stint as an oiler in the merchant marine, he joined the Air Force, played in base bars for $5 a night. Today Jimmy lives in transportive Arlington, Va. with his wife Sue and their two children Gary (5) and Connie (3). He gets up at 3:30 every morning, downs a breakfast of three energy pills and a Waring-blended pint of cream, two eggs...
...shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...
...span the gulf between the U.S. and much of the world, fair planners gear their displays to the needs and moods of the host country. This spring at the Casablanca fair, the U.S. emphasized American methods for improving farm output, one of Morocco's toughest problems. At the fair in Tokyo, capital of a country acutely sensitive to the promise of nuclear energy, the U.S. concentrated on showing how reactors can be used in industry...