Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seed of Discord. Traditionally, the company bargains separately at each of its 20 plants. But the unions this time insisted on a common expiration date for all Campbell contracts. Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris, to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry. His "traveling committee," representing the firm's unions, made its overriding aim to negotiate contracts for all Campbell plants at the same time. Meat Cutters Union Local President Clarence Clark claims that the old system enables the company to "play...
...giant killers were a pair of bespectacled U.S. amateurs, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. Ashe, ranked No. 13, polished off Okker and Australian Pro John Newcombe (No. 4); Graebner, who was unseeded, beat Aussie Pro Fred Stolle (No. 11) and Spain's Manuel Santana, who as No. 6 seed was the top-ranked amateur. Both advanced to the semifinals before losing-the first time since 1959 that two Americans had gone that...
...HAVE learned about hypocrisy and perhaps think too much of ourselves for having unveiled the forked tongue of the Establishment. We have, like each new batch of rebels, tried to tickle the testicles of society in order to shake something loose, inject a little jism, a hopeful seed into the metallic womb of America...
...ancestors of white America. Most ghetto exhibitions are carefully tailored to their audiences, designed to help meet the widely voiced demand from Negroes for more information about their neglected Afro-American heritage. Currently, several dozen projects are under way in about 20 cities, financed by $400,000 worth of seed money from the National Endowment for the Arts, by states' arts councils, private benefactors and locally raised nickels and dimes...
...Even the Indonesians have been persuaded to shuck their fears of divine indignation; last week they received 600 tons of harvested IR8 from the Philippines in the first international deal involving the new rice. The Filipinos have also been sending hundreds of tons of IR8 and IR5 seed to South Viet Nam. Much of it has gone into 10,000 "miracle rice" kits recently handed out by U.S. agricultural advisers. Yielding four or five tons per hectare (2.5 acres), or twice the national average, the rice has already shown such promise that South Vietnamese peasants have taken to calling...