Word: grains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Founder Aflak, 53, whose scholarly manner has won him the nickname "The Professor," defines Baath through his career as much as through his words. Born in Damascus to the Greek Orthodox faith in an overwhelmingly Moslem environment (Aflak's father was a moderately successful grain merchant, and his mother, now 75, is still illiterate), Aflak got honors in history at the Sorbonne. In Paris he argued politics with other Afro-Asian students, read Marx, Nietzsche and Jefferson. He says, "I quickly found Marxism inadequate, based on materialism without human and spiritual values, without national consciousness. Nations are only large...
...Russian negotiators in Washington cabled details of the plan to Moscow, and less than 24 hours after he had threatened to break off the talks, Khrushchev declared that "the grain dealers in America have made a reasonable approach." At week's end the Russians accepted the terms, and the scramble was on among grain companies for orders that are expected to total 150 million bushels of wheat...
...feed grain dealers and elevator operators, the wheat cannot move fast enough. Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...Shastri is disqualified -he had a heart attack in 1959-a leading contender for the prime-ministership would probably be S. K. Patil, 63, a right-winger who runs Bombay with brisk efficiency and until the Cabinet purge coped ably with the thankless job of Food Minister, though grain shortages prompted the crack that he "gave India food-for thought...
...bite and nibble the 700 to 800 new products that the company whips up yearly on its research budget of $3,500,000. Only six or eight of a year's budget of products ever get to the shelves. Currently Nabisco is test-marketing "Team Flakes," a four-grain cereal of wheat, rice, oats and corn...