Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salan is executed, and the amnesty is voted three days later," cried Tixier-Vignancour, "a whole lifetime would not be enough to repair that error." He concluded: "Let us not sow in the future the seed of discord for a generation which is, gentlemen, in your hands...
South Korea's basic economic problem is agriculture: more than 60% of its 25 million population eke a living from land that is only 20% arable. Aggravating such poverty was a system of usurious interest rates for seed and equipment that ranged up to 60%, kept farmers in perpetual debt. The Park regime has cut interest rates to 20%, this spring distributed $77 million in farm credits...
...varsity lightweights are seeded first, along with the undefeated heavy and lightweight JV's. The varsity heavyweights are not among the top-ranked, but have as good a chance as the other crews, with the exception of undefeated Cornell, the top seed. Behind the Big Red in the heavyweight seedings are Yale, MIT, and Penn in that order...
...except Alfred Hitchcock, the birds' strategist and director. "It makes me tired just watching them," he says, surveying the work of the millions of birds he has cast in his new horror movie, The Birds. "Thank goodness I'm only paying them bird seed...
Died. Henry McBride, 94, twinkly, oracular art critic for the old New York Sim and the magazines Dial and Art News, a Pennsylvania Quaker who started out illustrating seed catalogues and wound up as one of the U.S.'s most influential promoters of modern art, and the intimate of such Parisian cognoscenti as Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso; in The Bronx...