Word: pampa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Around Town. His feat this month came as slight surprise to anyone who knew James Randel Matson-including Dallas Long. By the time he was 18, Charlie Matson's boy was already a big man around the Panhandle town of Pampa, Texas. Naturally-he stood 6 ft. 61 in. tall and weighed 210 lbs. He also averaged 15 points a game for Pampa High's basketball squad, ran 50 yds. for the winning touchdown against archrival Amarillo High, and was practically a one-man track team-heaving the 12-lb. shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling...
...Regrets. The new attitudes are paying off. Despite a gritty drought in 1961-62, there are now some 40 million cattle on Argentina's pampas-and even that is not enough to fill both domestic and foreign demand. Instead of just livestock, the land is producing vast amounts of wheat and other crops; in the next few years a $50 million irrigation project will transform the arid pampa seca southwest of Buenos Aires into a 200,000-acre region that will eventually produce $60 million worth of fodder, fruit and vegetables annually. There are few regrets for the pampas...
...carrying the country along. Exports this year are expected to exceed imports by $350 million to $600 million-from bumper wheat and meat sales to Western Europe and Red China. Going for Illia are premium beef prices and one of the best wheat crops in history. In La Pampa province alone, wheat farmers this season have harvested 796,000 tons v. 5,300 tons during last year's searing drought. At long last, the cost-of-living spiral is leveling off (down 1.3% last month), and so is the peso. The exchange rate is holding steady in a range...
...suspected Reds. The project with current top priority is the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren, and activities in a dozen cities range from the "spontaneous" circulation of petitions to a rash of letters to newspapers, and a HELP IMPEACH EARL WARREN banner strung across the main street of Pampa, Texas (and taken down by the police a few hours later...