Word: michell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American banana lands from 134,593 to 81,089, has managed to increase output just the same. That feat is due largely to the company's development of the new Valery strain of banana, which endures wind, rain and disease better than the company's old Gros Michel (also called Big Mike) variety. Valery also gets a much higher per-acre yield. Even the Valery's biggest flaw has become a virtue: thin-skinned and fragile, it must be shipped in boxes instead of in on-the-stem bunches, and the necessary hand packing, while costlier...
French shoppers are inveterate food feelers-they pinch tomatoes, squeeze head lettuce, pull artichoke leaves, even give cheese a little poke before stashing it in their shopping sacks. Michel Turquet, 46, a former supermarket manager with a technocratic bent, hopes to change all that. If he gets his way, francs will come before fondles...
...poison of the black Mamba snake) with retaliatory raids on southern villages. Instead, Sadik established "peace villages" where tribesmen intimidated by the Anya Nya could live under the protection of his troops. In quiet, unemotional tones, the world's second youngest head of government (Burundi's Michel Micombero is only 26) convinced the bush chieftains of his tolerant outlook. He also promised to hold elections in the southern districts now unrepresented in the 233-member Constituent Assembly, which is charged with framing the Sudan's first permanent constitution...
...cast fits perfectly. Jane Fonda embodies the best of two movie cultures. She's American perkiness and French sensuality. McEnery is what he should be -- a teddy bear, solid, but not quite sure of himself. Tina Marquad, the jeune fille he might marry, is just cheeky enough. Michel Piccoli as the husband is intractable and believable...
Harvard's two losses came at six and seven, where Yoshi Akabane and Michel Scheinmann lost close 3-2 decisions. Fritz Hobbs (nine) scored an easy 3-0 victory, as did alternate John Whitbeck...