Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Meirion Darwin has been the game's greatest chronicler. Although Darwin is indisputably the best golf writer who ever lived, many also rate him the greatest sportswriter to set ink on paper, and that estimation takes into account such noteworthy members of the genus as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner...
...just trying to break even," says Billy. "I've been running around not knowing what the hell I'm doing. A lot of places I've been to I haven't gotten even travel expenses." That is about to change. Nashville Talent Agent Tandy Rice has signed Billy to join the Grand Ole Opry stars he handles in his outfit, Top Billing. After Rice approached him, Billy talked it over with his brother ("I know peanuts but nothing about traveling or going in front of the public"). The President agreed that maybe the agent could help...
What does Rice have in store? "Mixing and mingling," he says vaguely. That could mean some product endorsements, a feature television show or two, perhaps even a movie. Says Rice: "Right now I'd compare him to somebody like Ed McMahon...
...towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts of Nebraska are the driest they have been in 46 years...
...down to them before they can afford to buy much of it. For the first time since it won independence from Britain three decades ago, India last year made no new deals for imported foodstuffs. A record harvest of 118 million metric tons of food grains -mainly wheat and rice-has overflowed government granaries and is piled in the fields in polyethylene bags...