Word: fruitings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oriented Portugal. To feminists round the world, as well as to champions of a free press, the police action against the Portuguese women in June 1972 was an outrage that slowly became the focus of an international protest movement. Last week it looked as if the movement might bear fruit: although the three writers face jail terms of up to two years, observers were predicting that the court would impose only fines or suspended sentences when the case comes to trial next October...
Were Adam and Eve real people whose taste of forbidden fruit tainted man forever with original sin? Did Jonah spend three days in the belly of a "great fish"? Did the Red Sea actually part for Moses and the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt? Last week in New Orleans, the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod said yes to all those questions. By their votes, the delegates at the biennial L.C.M.S. convention made a crunching and almost unprecedented shift to the right, a shift that promises a major purge at the largest Lutheran seminary in the world...
Food processors are dropping some items because fruit and vegetable growers are demanding higher prices for their control-exempt goods, while the companies' prices for many products are often frozen at last summer's lower level. General Foods, for example, is turning away orders for some frozen-food lines, especially raspberries and strawberries. Some supermarkets are not stocking plums and tomatoes. Also, potatoes and fish sticks are already being priced off store shelves...
ITEM: Pollution. The use of "improved" chemicals exacts a usurious price. Clothes are more immaculate, but rivers are dirtier. Insecticides help fruit to ripen undisturbed, but as insects die, so do birds and fish and mammals. Preservatives give packaged food a longer shelf life, but they may also cause disease. As the latter-day Poor Richard, Barry Commoner, has observed: "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Nonetheless, that illogical meal remains the most actively sought of all contemporary national goals. (On the other hand, the parvenu naturalists attack the machine as a malignant monster - though, if pollution...
...when the Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in shares of Westgate-California Corp., the conglomerate of which Smith is chairman, after its accountants withdrew their certification of the company's 1972 financial statements. Then last week two lengthy federal investigations into Smith's affairs suddenly bore fruit. The SEC filed a suit in San Diego federal court alleging that Smith, Westgate President Philip A. Toft, Michael J. Coen, a former Westgage director, and several corporate defendants had systematically looted the conglomerate of some $100 million in assets. In a separate action, the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency...