Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chinese-made military trucks and Soviet troop carriers clog the rickety Long Bien bridge over the Red River, hauling sand and gravel to reconstruction projects around the city. The army has been pressed into service restoring communications, repairing roads, digging irrigation canals and even harvesting rice...
...upland city of Manizales, coffee capital of Colombia, new-car sales are booming, and supermarkets stock imported pâté de foie gras. In the Mexican highlands, dirt-poor Indian farmers eat meat with their rice and beans. In Guatemala, small planters who 18 months ago could barely afford bicycles splurge on motorcycles, TV sets and modern farm equipment. "I now own a Datsun truck, and my son is studying engineering," says one. "Enough of eating crud with the chickens...
...Fundraising committee also includes William T. Coleman, Jr., former Secretary of Transportation, Walter J. Leonard, former special assistant to President Bok, John U. Munro, former dean of the college and Lois Dickson Rice, vice president of the College Entrance Examination Board...
...physics major and football standout at Rice, Ryan was quoted as saying, "The concept of the scholar-athlete is a good one. I don't think athletics are the end-all of one's life and career...
...somewhere, eager to explore a fantasy world more "real" than everyday life because it appears in print? I'm not sure there are. Perhaps most of the shlock readership is made up of housewives, middle-American prisoners of the vacuum and the mop, crying babies over their shoulders and Rice Krispies cookies in their ovens. The Star, after all, is ostensibly for "American Women." The Enquirer and Midnight claim a more diverse audience...