Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past). Occasionally, as it does this week, the fascinating news in science comes under agriculture. Now quarantined in the Carolinas is a pesky parasite called Striga asiatica, or witchweed, that could cause more trouble than Asian flu and ruin crops from Virginia to Texas. See SCIENCE, Little Red Flower...
Farmers in 16 counties of North and South Carolina were anxiously watching their fields last week for a delicate, bright green plant that grows to be nine or ten inches high. It is a pretty plant, with gay red and orange flowers shaped something like violets. In South Africa, where it abounds, Boer farmers call it rooibloemetjie (little red flower) and vuurbossie (firebrand). In the U.S. it is witchweed (Striga asiatica), a parasitic plant that sucks the life sap of corn, sorghum, sugar cane and many other crops, leaving the plants as rustling ghosts while the little red flowers bloom...
...knows how the little red flower came to the Carolinas, but when the U.S. Department of Agriculture heard the news, it went into action, sending a task force of scientists to help the local authorities. A quick look at the literature told the scientists that Striga asiatica is one of the world's worst pests. Serious infestation can reduce corn yield to zero. Eradication is almost impossible...
...chapel and a 10:30 lights-out. This schedule is relaxed slightly on weekends, when the general packs the omnipresent letters, plus a private secretary, into a diesel-engined black Mercedes, and heads for the Jesuit-owned Villa Cavallatti in the Alban Hills, where he tends a flower garden described by him as "a great love...
...drift several hundred fellow U.S. Communists and fellow travelers of lesser rank. Bearded and beardless, they idle away the hours in avant-garde jazz cellars, drink tequila and loaf. But the top-line expatriates live well. Most of them rent comfortable, well-staffed houses in Mexico City or the flower-splashed resort town of Cuernavaca, talk art in stately houses set amid the ancient colonial towers and belfries of San Miguel de Allende. Shying away from publicity, they entertain one another at dinner, avoid noisy nightclubs. They operate businesses (in travel, real estate, even eggs), clip coupons or live...