Word: hayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheat crop in Montana, the Dakotas and the Canadian prairie provinces will be a near failure. Some of the fields are hardly worth harvesting; others have been mowed for forage. East of the Rocky Mountains most of the ranges are bare, and cattle are being fed with trucked-in hay or grain. If heavy rain falls in late July, it will turn the ranges green-but it will not rescue the wheat...
Denson's program is at least high in curiosity value: the paper's claimed circulation of 395,000 is up 40,000 from a year ago. Among the curious is John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who bought the Tribune in 1958. Fortnight ago, Whitney, until recently an absentee landlord, appointed himself editor in chief and moved in for a closer look. But while Multimillionaire Whitney expresses qualified satisfaction with the paper, he has no intention of letting it become an expensive habit. "We have a five-year plan...
...enmity of U.S. Negroes. As the admitted hero of U.S. conservatives, Goldwater has been unfairly charged with the sins of the right wing's political cranks, whom he has tried to steer toward moderation and toward a place in the G.O.P. But Goldwater critics could easily make hay of his refusal to reprimand the John Birch Society, even though Barry has publicly tut-tutted the overzealous Red-hunting of his friend Robert Welch, the society's founder. Of the society, Barry says: "I only know one chapter, the one in my home town. They are the finest people...
...could train Citation"); of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. The Missouri-born banker's son launched himself as an owner-trainer-breeder on the Midwestern bullring circuit, learned to halter his foals the day after they dropped, fatten them on only the right food ("I can smell hay or feel it in the dark and tell whether horses will like it"), waste none of it on losing nags (his pet phrase: "Trade'm away for a dog and then shoot the dog"). Always doing just a little bit better than his rivals, Plain Ben Jones built Calumet...
...sensing another war. And when war broke out, Karl von Wiegand stood so close to it-at the end of Manila's Pier 7 during a Japanese bomber attack-that concussion permanently damaged the retinas of both eyes. Captured later by the Japanese in company with Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, another Hearst journalist, he was held only briefly and was released because of ill health...