Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market belongs to the farmer. Tobacco auctioneers in North Carolina, where the crop was kept short by the weather, are being forced to ration tobacco at premium prices among customers; in effect the auctions, though performed for custom's sake, are a sham. In California an early frost scared buyers of grapes into believing that the crop might be sparse. Actually, the cold weather did only spotty damage, but in some cases prices were bid up by more than 50%. "This is the year we've all been waiting for," says Harry Gilfenbain, a grape grower, who stands...
...frame will anchor the middle and play middle guard when the Crimson shifts to a five-man line. Tennant likes to hit people and makes football a year-round occupation. Mike Ferguson will defend the strong side at outside linebacker with junior Bob Kristoff taking the back side. The frost big and strong averaging well over 200 pounds...
...logrolling in fan interest. Or at least it did until Fischer, the celebrated recluse, became a media happening. The scenes blur: Bobby swinging away in a sports-celebrity tennis tournament, Bobby receiving a letter of support from President Nixon, Bobby jetting to Bermuda for lunch with David Frost and the beautiful people, Bobby making the rounds of the talk shows (Dick Cavett: Do you honestly think that you are probably the world's greatest player? Bobby: Yeah, right.) There is even a new record called The Ballad of Bobby Fischer, a twangy ditty sung by Joe Glazer and the Fianchettoed...
...debate has gone on, to no satisfactory conclusion, since the days of the Greek theater. Lately it has focused most prominently on America's most prominent poet-in-exile, Ezra Pound. Now 86, Pound was indisputably a profound influence on 20th century poets, among them Yeats, Eliot and Frost. Yet he was also a thoroughgoing Fascist during the '30s and early '40s, pro-German and antiSemitic, a broadcaster of propaganda for Mussolini. At the end of World War II, he was arrested by the American Army and incarcerated in a Washington insane asylum as mentally unfit...
...their followings ye shall know the talk-show hosts. When CBS canceled Merv Griffin's nightly program last December, Merv's late-night fans seemed barely ruffled. When Westinghouse dropped David Frost in May the Frost constituency kept its cool. But when ABC announced in April that Dick Cavett would get the ax unless his ratings improved by July 28, Cavett's admirers raised a howl of protest that was immediate, loud and long. At stake, they charged with some justice, was the last haven of wit and urbanity in the wilderness of late-night network...