Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vine. This year, half of Algeria's 1,000,000 Europeans have fled; the French government tried to minimize this exodus as a "seasonal departure," to which the satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaine replied: "A seasonal departure which takes place once every 132 years." The wine harvest, which provides 50% of Algeria's exports, is withering on the vine as farmers leave for France, and one of the best wheat crops in history will barely top last year's drought harvest...
...favorite, hard-boiled Fellow Ukrainian Aleksei Kirichenko, as party boss in Khrushchev's former fiefdom. Early last year Khrushchev delivered a scorching assault against Podgorny for having blamed bad weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state, and had "honorably passed its examination." So had Podgorny. In April he was named...
...Beyond, in the open country, are the peasants who work the huge holdings of absentee landlords for a pittance; in Spain, one-hundredth of the population still owns half of the land. Five million Spanish peasants use no mechanized farm tools at all; as they helped bring in the harvest last week, they had, as the Spanish saying goes, "only their hands." Spain's per capita income is the second lowest, next to Portugal, in Western Europe. Most Madrid families can no longer afford even the lowest-price (80?) seats at the bullfights, now go more and more...
Meanwhile, the gang harvest mounted. Two days before Triplett's escape, two bodies stabbed and beaten beyond recognition turned up in the trunk...
...mile to his credit this spring, had planned to shoot for a double, and Ed Hamlin might also have run in both races. Both the $30 and mile fields are thin this year, and the varsity might have reaped a 24-point harvest in the two events. But not any more...