Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibilities. His wife has just had a new baby, and there's a new house "with a two-car garage, a screened back porch, two fireplaces, four bedrooms and a real red carpet in the living room. And I have my own farm, too, four acres of tobacco and six acres cleared for corn, soybeans and peanuts." That's not bad for a sharecropper's son, and Perry figures that it will take more than 20 wins to take care...
Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin) by Sylvia Wilkinson, 26, a green-eyed elf from the tobacco country of North Carolina, is a lyric evocation of childhood by one of the most talented Southern bellettrists to appear since Carson McCullers. Begun when the author was 13 and rewritten intermittently for more than a decade, Moss transpires in the mind and immediate vicinity of a white-trash waif. The girl's mother, a cold-eyed prostitute, abandons her, and her father, a warm-hearted Cherokee Indian, dies of rabbit fever. Desperate, she seeks in nature the tenderness she needs...
...couples clustered at 8 p.m. or so to nudge croquet balls on the House lawn. As more people showed the gateman their invitations or spoke the password, "swordfish," the air became thick with smoke from Danish tobacco...
...Marie Monroe's groom was Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, her father's private secretary and scion of a distinguished New York clan; Elizabeth Tyler's groom was William Waller, a tobacco planter and lawyer; Nellie Grant's Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent...
Belaúnde has also resisted political pressures to nationalize the U.S.-owned International Petroleum Co. (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963), has created a climate that makes investment thrive. Along the new highways around Lima, small but modern plants are producing everything from TV sets to tobacco products. Cashing in on consumer prosperity, Sears, Roebuck will soon open its third store in Lima, and has plans for two more next year. Until March 1965, Peru imported all its autos; it now has five assembly plants, will get eight more from French, German, Swedish and Japanese automakers next year. Says General Motors...