Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotels, cabarets and bungalows gave a festive air to Pnompenh, the capital, while under the mango trees, cruising Tampa-blue four-hole Buicks bore saffron-robed bonzes (Buddhist priests) to gilded pagodas. By an ingenious integration, American dredges were soon filling in ground for a Russian hospital, and U.S. farm machinery was being used to boost the corn and peanut crop for export to Red China...
...this were not enough, Tomorrow's School would have a model farm, a domestic zoo, greenhouses, pond, a lake for "kiddie fishing" and a Man-Made Mountain "for children to climb and explore to their hearts' content." And what sort of education will these children be getting? "Dynamic education," say Caudill & Co. grandly. "This must be, because education, like the American way of life, is ever changing, never static...
From Pall to Pernod. When Charlie was eleven, the year he learned to drive a car on the farm, a worried teacher told his father: "Charlie is capable in any direction. But I wonder if he'll ever be able to concentrate on any one thing." To the greater glory of Twenty One, the fear proved well grounded. In Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Charlie Van Doren studied the clarinet to become a concert artist. But though he ran up a 95 average and became the school's first student to qualify for college...
...Boing-Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Gerald introduces Old Mac-Donald Had a Farm, The Miner's Daughter and One Wonderful Girl (color...
...Henry S. Reddig, 49, a leader of a successful stockholders' fight for control of Minneapolis-Moline in 1955, was elected president, succeeding W. C. MacFarlane, 74, president since the farm implement company was founded in 1929, who becomes vice chairman of the board. Henry Reddig, an Oklahoman who worked first as Montgomery Ward's chief accountant while studying at night, has bought and sold several Ohio companies with his brother Edward, now chairman of Minneapolis-Moline, and is still president-owner of Cleveland's toolmaking Maxwell Co. The Reddigs began investing heavily in Minneapolis-Moline based...