Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have preferred to remain a Wall Street broker, is now chairman of the board. Seventy branch offices are tamely staffed with 13,000 full-time employees-and college degrees are "preferred." Pinkertons patrol race tracks with miniature cameras and walkie-talkies, and protect the clam-and oyster-seed beds of Long Island with a radar-equipped Pinkerton navy. Passion has given way to technology. For the enduring challenge of any personal crusade against the forces of darkness requires simplicity of means, and the possibility of confrontation with evil personified. Given the choice, Ahab might well have accepted radar...
...lunch at Manhattan's chic Cote Basque-and then swept the bride-to-be off in her chauffeured Rolls to start an afternoon round of shopping. Julie went to Bonniers, Bonwit Teller and Bendel's. Julie's wedding shoes, low-heeled white satin pumps with tiny seed-pearl bows in the back, come from Bendel's. Priscilla of Boston, who produced Luci Baines Johnson's 1966 wedding to Patrick Nugent, rounded up the wedding gown, bridesmaids' dresses and trousseau. The bridesmaids will wear pink...
...they climbed, ever higher into the Sierra Madre, mountains beyond mountains beyond mountains where on these mountains the farmers sowed their seed crops and left them, upon seemingly inaccessible peaks. ... And what a lesson there was for a writer in this; it was an ascension into heaven itself...
What, exactly, has the COH done in the last four or five years? It has discussed changing the method of assigning freshmen to Houses, increasing parietals, and student seating on faculty committees -- bird seed compared to questions like coeducation and a more relevant House system. The latter issues are the type which do indeed decide the social make-up of Harvard, and on these the COH has no power whatsoever. It has no control over social policy-setting matters; it merely oversees specific problems that arise. And even for these small problems, the Committee usually bows to the will...
...lanky Harvard graduate, Bayne had worked for almost a year in Maharashtra state in India, demonstrating new types of seed to farmers and helping them to fight rats. In the village he drank unboiled water. Bayne's first clue that something was amiss came in mid-August, when cigarettes "just didn't taste good." He quit smoking. A week later, he was nauseated and running a fever. The Peace Corps got him into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital, where physicians at first thought that this was going to be a routine case. They reported: "Condition satisfactory...