Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sourest chords in the grapefruit league were being struck by sometime Yankee Superstar Roger Moris, 27, who had yet to hit his first homer of the spring. After months of bouncing profitably around the banquet circuit, complaining about the food, and embarrassing his hosts with curt, monosyllabic speeches, Maris last week: dismissed young autograph seekers by signing programs with an X, announced a new policy of "no interview" to sportswriters, cursed out and threatened to slug U.P.I. Columnist Oscar Fraley, refused to pose for a photograph with Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. Said TV's longtime "Voice...
...John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes and maybe a little bag of onions." Friends still recall seeing young John McCormack crouched on a curbstone, reading by the flickering light of a gas street lamp. He devoured dozens of Dick Merriwell...
Sprinting along the fringes of space, 21 miles above the earth, NASA Test Pilot Joe Walker last week gunned his rocket-powered X-15 to the greatest speed any airplane has ever achieved-an imagination-defying 3.920 m.p.h. In the nose of the X-15, a grapefruit-sized electronic wizard familiarly known as "the Q-ball" gauged the basic critical factors-direction, sideslip, friction-and told Joe Walker that he could safely press for the record. Said Walker, with affection: "The Q-ball is a go-no-go item. Only if she checks...
...lying in bed and just thinking for half an hour-it's a time when my objectivity is at its best." Then he plunges into a furious round of keep-fit exercises (25 pushups, 25 knee bends, ten laps in the pool), downs his standard breakfast (half a grapefruit, five strips of bacon, tea), slips into an Ivy League grey suit (sometimes flashing it up with his gold cuff links that are shaped like tiny T-38 jets), and pilots a company Cadillac to headquarters...
Florida has plenty of home-grown industry as well, ranging from fashions to phosphates, from oranges to oysters (which are having one of their best years). Florida's oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and limes, and its fresh and frozen orange juice account for 65% of the U.S. citrus crop, a third of the world crop. Frozen juice has added stability to the business, eases the sharp ups and downs caused by whimsical weather. Oranges have become such a good investment that one enterprising developer is selling plots in groves that he will manage much like a mutual fund, planting orange...