Word: farms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest fight yet, sparked by the Fatah from a safe spot in a Muslim cemetery near Jericho. Through binoculars, there was a grandstand view of Jordanian artillery pounding Israeli armor. To get around Israeli military censorship, we devised a code with a friendly kibbutznik in a strategically located collective farm by the Jordan, who phoned us tips. 'Birds' were Israeli bombers, 'eggs' were bombs...
...Agriculture Department's Sheep and Fur Animal Re search Branch at Beltsville, Md. If the effect could be produced only when the sheep's wool was long, he reasoned, the fibers could easily be pulled, instead of sheared from the animal. And the un skilled farm labor needed for the simplified job would earn only about $2.50 per hour, sharply reducing costs to the wool industry. Taking up the project at Terrill's suggestion, Agriculture Biologist Ethel Dolnick and Physiologist Ivan Lindahl began feeding varying amounts of a nitrogen-mustard anti-tumor drug to experimental sheep...
Converted Farmer. Son of a Bronx butcher turned New Jersey chicken farmer, Segal began as a figurative painter and bought his own chicken farm to support himself. The farm was on the verge of bankruptcy and his works were not selling when, one day in 1960, a student walked into an art class he was teaching at a New Brunswick community center with a plaster-impregnated bandage marketed by the local pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson. She asked Segal whether he thought it could be used as an art form. Segal took the stuff home, had his wife wrap...
...down in the south of France eating bouillabaisse with local fishermen, up north touring the farm lands, or in Paris hosting a diplomatic do or two, chances are U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver is out on a tennis court. Last week it was a Franco-American match in the gardens of the French Senate, as Shriver, playing alternately with U.S. Amateurs Chuck Pasarell and Arthur Ashe, went into action against a pair of French aces. After four games, the score was 2-2, then a smashing Shriver forehand put away the fifth game of the foreshortened...
Died. Fresco Thompson, 66, vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, who spent 46 years in the game as a player, manager, farm-system director and front-office executive; of uremic poisoning; in Fullerton, Calif...