Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best of Spain's eating-olive crop is bugged. The pestiferous Dacus fly, or Dacus oleae-a kissin' cousin of the U.S. fruit fly-is nibbling its way through millions of gallons of plump Queen olives and slimmer, tarter Manzanillas. Seville and surrounding territory in western Andalusia produce 98% of the world's green eating olives, and the U.S. buys 75% of them. U.S. importers say that wholesale prices for Manzanillas have already risen 15%-from $34 to $39 per fanega (16 gal.). Queens are 50% more expensive-at $20 to $30 per fanega. But because...
...life. The dedication came on what would have been the author's 67th birthday, and 300 friends gathered with his widow Mary and son Jack to pay their respects. "I looked around at all the pomp and circumstance," said Jack after the speeches, "and then I saw a fruit jar at the base of the statue filled with wild flowers. That really got to me. Papa would have liked that...
Discipline is Mobutu's way of life. He rises at dawn every morning, takes a breakfast consisting mainly of Eno's Fruit Salts, a sparkling laxative, then settles down for an hour to read the biographies of the world's political and military leaders ("to know how they acted in difficult times"). His own most difficult problem is reconstruction of the northeast Congo, which the two-year Simba rebellion left in ruins. An average of 400 refugees a day are still pouring into Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), which is itself a city half dead: half its shops...
...cooperation with whites and deepening the Negro's sense of separateness, the black-power movement may serve to increase Negro frustrations rather than relieve them. It has already begun to alienate whites, who bridle at the exclusionary connotations of black power; last week Author Lillian Smith (Strange Fruit) resigned in protest from CORE, whose membership was 50% white only five years ago. Black power is certainly submerging the bread-and-butter issues that matter deeply to aspiring Negroes. Perhaps most tragic of all, it turned last week into an attack on the Negro middle class, which has borne most...
...Greta in a decision that he doggedly insists had nothing to do with the "propriety" of the situation. The judge simply believed Greta's testimony that "she never considered the money and property turned over to her by this man as earnings," but thought of them as the fruit of "a very close personal relationship" based on "love and affection." Ruled the judge: Greta "received gifts of money and property, and no taxable income...