Word: tilling
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...result of "a smaller harvest than in 1960 due to particularly unfavorable weather conditions." But this excuse hardly convinced many East Germans who knew that neighboring Poland, with similar weather, produced record crops in 1961. The real difference: Poland had soft-pedaled collectivization, permitted the farmers to till their own land; Ulbricht's regime, on the other hand, was still trying to force an unwilling peasantry to work in a harsh collective farm system...
...dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with a dangerous, intelligent darkness. Moreover, the main performances are most capably carried off. Actress Kerr, with steely control, tunes herself like a violin string till she quivers exquisitely at the snapping point; and the dear children are just what Author James imagined-faces that shine like bright new pennies till the watcher begins to wonder uneasily about the other side of the coin...
...collection of songs from the sound tracks of a half-dozen corny movie musicals that Judy belted to box-office glory in the late 1940s. For fans who have been mourning the lost lithe talent of their youth, it is all here-in such memories as Who? from Till the Clouds Roll By and Better Luck Next Time from Easter Parade...
Apparently anxious not to run afoul of the SEC, Kirby denied that he was planning a proxy war, said that he would be content simply to fight the Murchisons' I.D.S. scheme in the courts. But many Wall Streeters believed it was only a matter of time till the bell rang for Round 2 of the great Alleghany fight...
Died. William Ellsworth Hoy, 99, baseball's oldest former major leaguer who between 1888 and 1902 played for the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox; of a stroke; in Cincinnati. Deafened when two years old by spinal meningitis, Hoy did not learn to speak till his wife taught him at 36, retained a lifelong preference for sign language, and in the blunt innocence of a bygone age was affectionately dubbed "Dummy" by his teammates...