Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norton Simon, the California millionaire who built an empire out of tomato paste, not only collects companies (among the many: Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry and Wheeling Steel) but also shuffles them and their management like so many cards. Last week he was shuffling for all he was worth. First, he announced that he was relinquishing the post of board chairman of Wheeling Steel, which he has held since Hunt Foods acquired a major interest in the West Virginia steel firm in 1964. Next, in an unrelated move, he arranged the appointment of Colgate-Palmolive Executive Vice President David...
...have this Golden Dream, you see. I want to lead 10,000 Oakland Negroes to the Capitol for a sit-in. Then I want to stand up as a member of the House of Representatives and throw a tomato at the Secretary of Defense...
Here in Los Angeles vodka has been run over by a contraption known as a Mexican Edsel-half tequila, half V8. (Wow! It sure doesn't taste like tomato juice...
There must be times when Cassius Clay wonders what in the name of Allah has happened to him. Just yesterday he was "the Greatest," a carefree teenager who chattered amusingly about winning the heavyweight championship of the world and driving around in a tomato-red Cadillac. Now he is 24, divorced, in Dutch with the draft, condemned by Congressmen. He is the "champion of the world," but it is a smallish world: eleven states, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Brotherhood of Black Muslims...
...received a dangerous dose. What is more, added the board, "there is not the slightest risk in eating meat, fish, vegetables from the zone, or of drinking milk from there." Just to be on the safe side, the U.S. dug up 1,500 cubic yards of contaminated topsoil and tomato plants and made plans to ship them back to a radioactive-waste dump in Aiken, S.C., for diplomatic burial...