Word: tubers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Larry Fine, 73, one of the Three Stooges; of a stroke; in Woodland Hills, Calif. As the frizzy-haired, tuber-nosed sidekick of Moe and Curly, Larry played an amiable idiot who spent most of his time dodging pies. Veterans of one-and two-reel shorts of the '30s, the Stooges enjoyed an extraordinary revival on TV in the late '50s, when their ham-handed slapstick endeared them to a new generation of children...
...tons of truffles, compared with an annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear forever from our markets...