Word: taro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detained and questioned for over two-and-a-half hours by Canadian border officials before being asked to post bond. After presenting the money on Thursday, he was questioned for another hour before being allowed to attend his speaking engagement at Brock University, located in St. Catherines, On-taro...
...foreign firms, other companies to manufacture the materials and machinery he needed. Says Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...
SEASHORE STORY by Taro Yashima (Viking; $4.95). An ancient Japanese tale of a fisherman who went away to the bottom of the sea on the back of a turtle and stayed so long that no one remembered him when he returned. Illustrated by the author with beguiling watery pictures...
...Happy Talk. Kauai ("The Garden Island") likes to think it has best safeguarded the ancient Hawaiian traditions of hospitality. The "Aloha spirit" has been adulterated on bustling Waikiki with too many cheap grass skirts and plastic leis. But it still thrives on Kauai, where farmers tend their lush taro patches and fish with nets from the reefs much as their forefathers did. Local boys and girls mingle with the young crowd of guests in the Prince Kuhio piano bar of the new Kauai Surf, at Kalapaki Bay, whe ~e the waves come in just right for beginning surfers...
...Operation Taro Leaf, which fell to the 25th, a search-and-clear maneuver in Hau Nghia province about 20 miles northwest of Saigon...