Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet civilian economy has been badly shortchanged as a result of Russia's costly military intervention in Czechoslovakia and the buildup along the Chinese border. Moscow urgently needs to increase its investment in agriculture, which suffered heavily this year as severe weather snapped a string of good harvests. Western experts scoff that some of the 160 million-ton grain crop the Soviets are claiming to harvest "must still be under the snow...
...success of Operation Intercept, President Nixon's project to shut off the flow of Mexican marijuana into this country, and a poor Mexican harvest have caused such a shortage of grass in the Boston area that local pushers have resorted to blending it with a number of look-alike substitutes...
...course, the most pressing question in Gargaliani-other than the outcome of the olive harvest-is when Spiro will come home. He has promised in letters to Andreas to visit the town, but the townspeople are beginning to wonder, in the shrewd fashion of peasants, why he waits so long. The delicacies of international politics that must concern their American cousin-the presence of a military junta in Athens, the absence of a constitutional Parliament-are not easily explained to the good people of sunny Gargaliani...
Since tuition alone cannot pay the bills at Sandy Run, the difference is being made up through contributions, solicitation by teachers and benefit parties-such as the "Harvest Carnival" recently staged by the Ladies Auxiliary, which netted the school $500. Sandy Run's eleven teachers are paid a maximum of $5,000 a year, compared with $7,300 in the public schools. All are college graduates, though several lack required credits for teaching in public schools. Headmaster William Jackson, 54, a retired public school teacher, insists that he and his staff are motivated by simple love of learning...
Taking no chances that year-end frivolity will get in the way of his scheme. Castro is delaying Christmas, New Year's and the Jan. 2 anniversary of the revolution. Celebrations would only "interrupt the harvest," he explained last week. So, he said: "We will save our suckling pig and Christmas Eve beans, Bacardi rum and beer for July." What if the 1970 harvest falls short, as outside experts predict? Who knows? Perhaps in that case the Bearded One will hold off the other bearded one, Santa Claus, a while longer...