Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First he was the manchild, the impish chatterbox who dabbled in verse, ogled the girls ("foxes," he called them), drove around in a tomato-red Cadillac, and made everybody laugh when he announced that he was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world...
...which produces 10% of the U.S. food supply but will lose its supply of cheap labor when a law admitting Mexican braceros to the U.S. expires at year's end. Newly developed pickers that enable 13 men to do the job of 60 harvested 10% of the California tomato crop this year. A Salinas firm has just started making a phrenological lettuce picker-it feels each head to determine if it is ripe-invented by agricultural engineers at the University of California. Other promising machines: a contraption that shakes peaches off trees into an inverted canvas umbrella, one that...
...heavyweights are everybody's heroes, with their tomato-red Cadillacs and gold-lamè sport coats, their 18-in. biceps and sledgehammer fists. When they fight, the whole world watches. So what happens? One punch, and it's goodbye Charley, let's do this again next year. It doesn't even seem to matter where the punch lands: Cassius Clay taps Sonny Listen on the arm, and Sonny takes the pipe sitting on his stool...
...began as head of Hunt Foods and Industries, the world's largest packer and distributor of tomato foodstuffs, and has since branched out into half a dozen businesses from Ohio Match Co. to McCall's magazine. He seeks controlling stock in other firms in hopes of improving them, and, says one museum curator, "in the same way he picks up a company that could be doing better, Simon makes a good painting more important by adding it to his collection." By hanging it in the company of centuries of masterworks, even Simon's Rembrandt gains character...
...from Cat. His father and mother were tomato farmers on Cat Island in the Bahamas. Once or twice a year, they went to Florida in a small sailboat to sell their tomatoes, and on one of these trips their eighth child, Sidney, was born, thus becoming an American citizen by a fluke that turned out to be lucky. The tomato farm died in an agricultural disaster year. At 15, Sidney was coasting toward delinquency. His father, deciding that the boy's American citizenship might save him, sent him to live with a brother in Miami...