Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mile into Jordanian territory, the Israeli armored columns were met by Jordanian tanks, which gave fierce battle and pinned down half of the Israeli force. The other half raced ahead toward Karamah, across the river flats, through groves of oranges, olives, blossoming almond trees, across fields of young wheat and vegetables...
...MARTY FLECKMAN, 23, 5 ft. 10 in., 175 Ibs. Last June, as an unheralded amateur, Fleckman led the U.S. Open after 54 holes-only to collapse with a last-round 80. A health-food enthusiast (honey, brewers' yeast, wheat germ), Fleckman borrowed $6,500 to finance his fling at the tour and won the first pro tournament he entered: last year's Cajun Classic. Some pros insist that Fleckman does not follow through properly, and flips the club during his downswing. But he is making that flawed swing...
...chairman and chief executive officer since 1945 of Bache & Co., Inc., world's second largest brokerage house (after Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Bache started out in 1914 running trade messages for $1 a day, rose through the cotton and wheat pits to the top of his granduncle's 89-year-old brokerage house, which he expanded from 48 to 124 branches and turned into the top dealer in both commodities and mutual funds...
...most productive in the world. Wisconsin supplies one-seventh of America's milk, more than any other state. It also leads in the production of cheese and milk cow and heifer herds. The rich dark prairie land of the southwest corner--the "driftless area" missed by the glaciers--yields wheat, corn and hogs...
America's longshoremen have long staged their own reprisals against enemies foreign and domestic, as in their refusal in 1964 to load U.S. wheat onto Russian-bound freighters. Now Dr. Benjamin Specie, 64, baby doctor and Viet Nam dissenter, has felt the fury of their wrath. Dock workers in Manhattan disdained to haul Spock's new 35-ft. ketch Carapace aboard the freighter Atlantic Clipper, headed for the Virgin Islands, where Spock has a winter home. Carapace's builders announced that they would sail the boat to the Caribbean themselves...