Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conducted by Party Boss Truong Chinh, the North Vietnamese land reform was a bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist...
...last week hysterically joined the weird posthumous cult of James Dean (TIME, Sept. 3), by featuring the late young actor on three shows and two networks. Harvest, starring Dorothy Gish and Ed Begley, reappeared on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents; I'm a Fool, with Natalie Wood, on General Electric Theater (CBS); and The Unlighted Road was shown on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the third time. All three shows exploited the Dean legend for frankly commercial purposes. "He's hotter than anybody alive," cried one NBC executive. The pulse-takers backed...
...tumor-a purplish, egg-shaped mass almost 3 ft. long. The patient's circulation faltered only for a moment when she was rolled onto her back. Now, Dr. Eames told the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, she is back in the fields as a migrant harvest hand...
...left the University of Wisconsin to study Russian Communism firsthand. Since, he has been a newsman in Moscow, Tokyo and other world capitals, a war correspondent, our first postwar Berlin bureau chief and a writer in New York, before joining my staff as a lecturer. The harvest of these years has been four books: the first, Behind the Urals, was published in 1942, and the fourth...
...have two things to say about this beginning. First, the old price-depressing Democratic farm program stayed in effect right up to harvest last year . . . Eighty-five per cent of the price decline after the Korean war inflation came while rigid price supports were still in effect. Our opponents today are criticizing the mess that they themselves left behind...