Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France last year, his 1,800 peasants and their families burned down the bidonville (shantytown) where they had huddled in squalor for generations, and moved into their former master's dwellings. The wine presses and bottling machinery are in good order and ready to process the bumper grape harvest expected this month, although ex-Owner Borgeaud took the formula for his red wine with him to France and no one is quite sure how to achieve the same product. There are other problems; tomatoes, for instance, are being sold to farm workers for 1½? a lb. but cost...
...There comes a time in a man's life," says Philosopher Martin Buber, "when he should begin to bring the crop into the barn." In Buber's case, the harvest includes a goodly share of the honors the world pays to a man who has thought deeply and originally. Last week, at the age of 85, frail, white-bearded Philosopher Buber flew from Israel to Amsterdam to accept one of Europe's highest intellectual prizes: the $28,000 Erasmus Award, presented to one or more persons who have contributed to the spiritual unity of Europe.* The award...
...attempting to influence the outcome, but the department's publications explaining the wheat plan have made it abundantly clear to farmers that Freeman thinks they would be fools to vote against it. Under Freeman's guidance, six U.S. farmer organizations formed a National Wheat Committee to harvest yes votes. The committee has recruited townspeople in wheat areas-bankers, merchants, lawyers, local officials-to help persuade the farmers. In Keenesburg. Colo., for example, the Citizens State Bank placed in the local newspaper an ad warning farmers that the bank will have to tighten credit to wheat farmers...
...been answered. Ever since medical science and surgery began keeping house together, they have inherited one bonanza after another from rich uncles to whom they did not know they were related: nuclear physics, polymer chemistry, rheology (flow of liquids), gas dynamics, cybernetics, electron microscopy. Out of a rich harvest of intelligence from the physical and biological sciences, surgeons have learned how to use heart-lung machines, artificial kidneys, X-ray cameras to take pictures inside the heart-a whole host of machines that could never have been made...
...grim harvest for West Germany: 3,000 babies dead shortly after birth and another 3,000 with grotesque malformations, because their mothers had taken the sleeping-pill tranquilizer thalidomide during early pregnancy. What was to become of the little victims? With legs and arms deformed or missing, some of the babies promised to be lifelong basket cases. All seemed unequipped to face their uncertain future...