Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bacco has been a government monopoly in France since 1811, when Napoleon noticed an ostentatiously bejeweled woman at a Tuileries ball and then discovered that her husband was a tobacco merchant. That very night. Napoleon is supposed to have signed the decree nationalizing the weed, and a golden harvest has poured into France's treasury ever since. Ex plained one candid official last week: "We rake in $500 million a year in tobacco taxes - that's why we're celebrating...
...show in issue was Harvest of Shame, an hour-long study of the plight of the U.S. migratory worker presented last Nov. 25 on CBS Reports. Deliberately scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, the documentary drew for turkey-stuffed Americans a stark picture of the field hands who rove about the country, living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves...
...Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...
...HARVEST ON THE DON (367 pp.) -Mikhail Sholokhov- Knopf...
...Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism obviously incompatible with Marxist philosophy...