Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team, headed by Maurice E. Rice, assistant foreman of operating engineers, will traverse the 7.5 miles of underground steam tunnels nightly to shut off completely heat valves in classrooms and libraries and to lower dormitory temperatures to 60 degrees...
HARKNESS COMMONS, Cat Ballou, Dec. 8, at 8, $1 or $.50 with activity card. HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, Mexican Footage by Ron Rice, The Rise to Power of Louis XIV, by Roberto Rossellini...
...like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo-American homes embarked upon in the late 1960s, involving swamis in India...
Some 225 miles to the south, the Delta presents a vivid contrast. Driving down Highway 4, which links Saigon with its rice bowl, buses and military convoys vie irritably for space on the narrow asphalt road, amidst foul-smelling cyclones of black exhaust. There is a dull thud or two of mortar and a burst of machine-gun fire in palm trees half a mile to the south. Women stooping in the paddyfields don't even bother to look up. "Just a couple of guerrillas," sighs the driver...
...pinned down protecting our hamlets," says Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, the commander of Military Region IV (the Delta area), who is rated as one ofARVN'S top generals. One typical fire-coordination center at Trung Ngan resembles a medieval fortress, with its thick walls towering over watery rice fields. Operating from such outposts, Nghi hopes to drive the enemy completely out of the region...