Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Left University of Minnesota after two years when money ran out . . . Operates a 600-acre grain and grass seed farm in Minnesota . . . In 1960s was Agriculture Department's Midwest administrator of price supports, production control and storage programs . . . Lashes Earl Butz's laissez-faire policies . . . Believes in farm price supports, backed by stockpiling if necessary . . . Says that "the free market system ends at our borders-in the world market we must deal with governments" . . . Wants a protective tariff on imported sugar...
...award, sponsored by Norwegian newspapers and civic groups as a grass-roots parallel to this year's Nobel Peace Prize,* drew an outpouring of $324,000 in donations from Norway and around the world. Her voice trembling, Williams announced that the money would go to a children's center in Belfast's gutted slums. "When I look at sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...
...second, equally important, was the idea that a painting's surface was an impartial collector of images. Anything could be dropped on the blueprints and leave its mark. Soon afterward, Rauschenberg made grass paintings?bundles of soil and plant matter held together with chicken wire, from which seedlings sprouted. (The last of these modest forerunners of earth art perished of cold and thirst in his loft down by the Fulton Street docks in 1954.) The results of this clownish exercise, as it looked then, would be of capital importance to modern...
NONFICTION 1-Roots, Haley (1) 2-Passages, Sheeny (2) 3-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (4) 4-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (3) 5-Adolf Hitler, Toland (5) 6-The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (7) 7-Blind Ambition, Deon (6) 8-Blood and Money, Thompson (8) 9-The Hite Report, Hite 10-To Jerusalem and Back, Bellow