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...exception is Author Max (Barefoot Boy) Shulman, who has not only written a song about pea picking but speaks poetically of the peas' earthly journey toward "their succulent destinies." The reason for Shulman's enthusiasm is that while in college he worked as a pea picker for the Green Giant Co. of Le Sueur, Minn., where the pea is king. Green Giant is the U.S.'s largest canner of peas and corn, with 22 processing plants in eight states and two in Canada. In the last decade, it has raised its sales from $46 million to more...
...hothouse." The youngest of ten children, he paid his way through Mississippi College and the University of Mississippi law school by working as a barber and a janitor. But once he got his law degree, he left poverty behind. Specializing in damage suits, he proved to be a skillful picker and swayer of juries, became the state's top lawyer in his field, with an income estimated at $100,000 a year...
Seaborg worked his way through U.C.L.A. with a multitude of jobs ranging from stevedore to apricot picker, then moved on to the University of California at Berkeley for graduate work. He won his Ph.D. in chemistry with a learned thesis: The Inelastic Scattering of Fast Neutrons. After graduation he stayed on at Berkeley, went happily into the laboratory of the late great chemist, Gilbert Newton Lewis, as an assistant. A popular teacher, Seaborg advanced swiftly up the academic ladder, finally becoming chancellor of the university in 1958. At the same time, he was a leading figure in the university...
Bright Sun, Black Sky. At T minus 3, the "cherry picker" escape crane drew slowly away from the capsule. Away snapped the umbilical cord that had supplied oxygen, power and communication. The rocket was on its own. As it waited for the starter's button, a cloud of white vapor from the liquid oxygen spread like a puddle over its pad. The crowd fell silent. Exactly at T, the rocket roared, rose off the ground and, standing on its tail of flame, climbed smoothly into...
...finish your question. I don't want to say a thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used to lift the President, grim-faced and ignoring the photographers below, aboard his plane in Palm Beach, and a similar device lowered him to the ground in Washington. He canceled one scheduled speech, delivered a second -to the National Conference on International Economic and Social Development -seated...