Word: grains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masterpiece, Confessions, the chart with which Guehenno painstakingly navigates to the heart of the man. Rousseau's own resolution was to "put his life to the test of truth," and he did it by recording in Confessions every real and fancied failure, every agonizing triumph, every abrasive sand grain of guilt. He himself was in no doubt about the splendor and uniqueness of his autobiography. "It is without precedent," he boasted, "and will find no imitator -the only existing portrait of a man drawn from life and in all truthfulness, and probably the only one there ever will...
...knee, and along with those modest Russian miniskirts took Courrèges to boot. Then the State Committee on Prices hiked the tags on a wide array of heavy industrial products, with increases ranging from 35% on metals to 75% on coal. Finally the Agriculture Ministry announced a bumper grain harvest for 1966 of some 160 million tons, the largest in Soviet history and up 40 million tons over last year's yield...
...being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles to buy them...
...Saskatchewan's wheatfields. As the harvest gathered momentum across the 1,000-mile sweep of the Canadian prairies last week, the empty, echoing granaries filled with the largest crop in the nation's history-a crop that is already sold out, as is all the grain the prairies can grow for the rest of the decade. With the rumble of the harvest came a cacophony of Canadian sounds that, taken together, sounded unmistakably like boom...
Ironically, two Communist countries are responsible for much of this new prosperity. Since Red China placed its first order in 1961, the Canadians have sold a billion bushels of grain behind the Iron and Bamboo curtains, not to mention to Britain, Japan and 101 other countries...