Word: harvest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must accept the facts of life. You must recognize that we are here to stay." Khrushchev's argument: the U.S. must accept that fact and concede a "status quo" or "thaw" or "peace." It must close down its worldwide deterrent bases and disarm. It should reap the golden harvest of trade with Communist nations. It should leave to a furious peacetime competition the settlement of the classic feud between Communism and capitalism. Ultimately, he declared cockily, Communism would win anyway...
...bountiful nation. Under a harvest moon that filled the August sky, the wheat and corn and cotton were ripening, and the U.S. prepared to bring in the biggest crop ever. Detroit proudly unveiled its sporty 1960 automobile crop, and giant commercial jets were becoming so commonplace that the average man no longer turned his face up to look at them when they cast their falcon shadows over the land. Factories hummed, production figures zoomed, the economy rocketed upward toward the stratosphere...
...learned to his sorrow that he had passed up a $500 million gold mine. After years of scouring Labrador (which has remembered him in the names of rivers, lakes and streets), he struck iron ore, but the depression prevented him from mining it and the Canadian Government reaped the harvest of one of the richest iron deposits in the world. He took his luck philosophically: "I was just there a darn sight too soon, but I have certainly enjoyed myself...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Seed of Guilt plants Actress Gloria Vanderbilt in a family full of high-style snobbery, lets her harvest the inevitable conflict between a class-conscious grandmother and a candid little granddaughter who does not believe that anybody's blood runs blue...
...Harvest. In Sydney, Australia, after appealing for blood donors, the Red Cross got 37 volunteers from Her Majesty's Australian ship Vampire...