Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes's evocations of New England in the four seasons. Her book ends in the late fall: "Crows were out gleaning, looking like blown bits of charred paper. And talking all the time - like crows talk. Far above, the lonely hawk floating. Harvest is over. It is the lone-somest time of the year...
...which theoretically gave small plots to poor peasants to own and work for themselves, was now proving "unstable . . . weak . ... unable to weather natural calamities." Instead, the peasants' "individual economy" will be transformed along Russian lines: 35,800 collective farms will be set up before this year's harvest...
Author Suárez' pessimistic fatalism is not calculated to win him wide readership in the U.S., although in Spain he has reaped a harvest of literary honors. He has won the Adonais Prize with a volume of poems, the Lope de Vega Prize with a play, and the Nadal Prize with The Final Hours, his first novel. U.S. readers will not have to share Prizewinner Suarez' gloomy attitude to respect his accomplishments as a novelist...
...surrey-riding when done with helicopters. The owner of a big Texas pecan grove no longer sends Mexican laborers clambering into his trees?he simply flies a helicopter over the grove when the nuts get ripe, and the rotor blows the crop to the ground before lunchtime on harvest day. The whirlybird is proving a heaven-sent device for motion-picture directors; a camera fixed in a helicopter can hang motionless high in the sky over battle scenes, or follow the U.S. Cavalry to the rescue through the steepest canyons. Four Bell helicopters, two dressed like boys and the others...
...representatives of 71,000 North Carolina tobacco growers met last week in Raleigh's Sir Walter Hotel, they filled the air with their troubles as well as tobacco smoke. The drought had hit most of them hard, postponed the harvest a full two months; growers in the state were hustling to get the big leaves into their curing barns before the first frost came. Moreover, the quality of this year's crop had suffered, and prices were down. To Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, the growers sent their suggestion for a cure: acreage allotments for 1954 should...