Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce. In this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume. Refrigeration, automated processing and packaging conspire to defy season and banish spoilage. And in the wake of the new affluence and the new techniques of processing comes a new American interest in how what people eat affects their health. To eat is human, the nation is learning to think, to survive divine...
...strength to make the first team of the pro scouts' All-America (TIME, Dec. 12). Last week he was tapped by the newly formed Minnesota Vikings to become the first man chosen in the annual draft of college stars by the National Football League. Second man picked: Wake Forest's Norm Snead, a king-size (6 ft. 4 in., 208 lbs.) quarterback, who was picked by the Washington Redskins although he was snubbed altogether by the wire-service All-Americas...
RABBIT, RUN, by John Updike. This talented, depressing book contains some of the best and some of the most shocking writing of the year. Its hollow, spineless central character leaves a trail of misery and tragedy in the wake of his weakness, a condition that, the author seems to imply, infects a great many average U.S. young men without the stamina to face the facts of life...
Quarterback: Norman Snead, 21, Wake Forest; 6 ft. 4 in., 208 Ibs. Although Snead was snubbed by the wire-service All-Americas, the pros call him "a pure passer" with the advantage of enough height to look over the offensive line. Right behind Snead the scouts rank North Carolina State's Roman Gabriel, 20 (6 ft. 3 in., 215 Ibs.), who is a junior. While the pros admire the all-round ability of Mississippi's Jake Gibbs, the first-stringer on most All-Americas, they generally rate both Snead and Gabriel as better passers for the N.F.L...
Zigzag Intellectual. Following in Martin's wake may take some doing. A brilliant but zigzag intellectual with the tonsure and the look of a nonconformist cleric (his father was just that), Martin came to the Statesman determined to kindle a blaze: "I thought I was the sort of editor who would destroy the paper within six months but would make my message clear." He succeeded in doing neither...