Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...houses that shudder at North Dakota blizzards but withstand them. As fondly as an oldtimer, Woiwode, 33, compares the merits of long-forgotten tractor brands (the Hart Parr, Waterloo Boy, Rumley Oil Pull) and stocks a winter larder as it was in the days before home freezers: "The potato bin was full. There were parsnips, kohlrabi, turnips and rutabagas, all dipped in paraffin to preserve them, in other bins, and carrots buried under sand...
...tone is the key to it all; it lets McPhee write in an unusually personal way. He begins an article about Loch Ness, home of the monster, by telling his readers that he and his wife and four daughters were sitting next to the Loch picnicking on "milk, potato sticks, lambs' tongues, shortbread, white chocolate, Mini-Dunlop cheese." Another article is about a basketball game McPhee played in some time ago. Another, about a white-water canoeing championship, spends much of its time talking about the kinds of canoes McPhee paddled in as a child and how he went about...
...swelling grapes on the vine and would produce a vintage crop. Elsewhere, the sizzling sun brought punishing drought. The French government declared parts of Brittany and Normandy agricultural disaster areas. The grain crop was expected to be off by 10%, and there were fears as well for corn and potato harvests. Because of a lack of hay for cattle, milk production plunged...
...Baked Potato. Made on a shoestring budget that does not seem to have caused anyone much difficulty, Death Race 2000 is a jaunty, funny, bemusedly tense little action picture. It was obviously intended to scoop Rollerball, a more costly and similar science-fiction enterprise (TIME, July 7) and it commits its petty larceny briskly and efficiently, with none of Rollerball's thundering pretension. David Carradine, late of TV's Kung Fu, appears as the champion racer Frankenstein. Various parts of his body have been smashed, burned or discarded during his racing career, and he now appears...
...spacemen will also dine together. The Apollo crewmen will treat Leonov to a meal of potato soup, beefsteak, rye bread and cheese, strawberries and tea with lemon. Most of the American food is dehydrated and requires the addition of water; the Russians prefer space food that is already in paste form. Brand will get a chance to test ins skills on a Soviet chest-exercising device. On Friday, Stafford and Leonov are scheduled to hold a joint press conference, fielding reporters' questions from Houston and Moscow...