Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unremarkable. The only marginally interesting section of the Britten piece, which uses a problemmatical Auden text, was a Queen Mab Scherzo passage affording relief from the "flickering flames" of "Blonde Aphrodite." The unidentified soprano soloist thrilled us with another seismic performance whose beauty might be compared to an autumnal wheat field methodically bending to the breeze. Mr. Dello Joio, whose star has been rising ever since his epochal Air Power brought home the Caligulan glory of the air force to the musically thirsty, seems to have made little musical progress since that Curtis Lemay extravaganza. His To St. Cecilia...
...speech reached the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson spent half an hour on the telephone with Richard Nixon. The White House, naturally, did not discuss the conversation, but it is a safe assumption that the Democratic President and the Republican presidential candidate wasted little time talking about wheat sales or the World Series. By the time Humphrey phoned the White House, shortly after delivering the speech, the reaction from Johnson's end of the line was, in the words of an aide to the Vice President, "very cool...
...Humphrey "squishy soft" on Communism, a charge he hastily retracted. Two weeks ago, he denounced a charge of "collusion" with George Wallace, only to discover that the charge had been made against the Democrats by Dick Nixon. In Casper, Wyo., Agnew put a Stetson on backward and talked about wheat prices to sheep and cattle ranchers. On KULR-TV in Billings, Mont., he hinted that the Republicans had a solution to the war, forcing Nixon into a weary "what-Mr.-Agnew-meant-to-say" denial...
...once a thriving Roman colony. Wealthy citizens decorated their homes with multicolored mosaics, 15 different kinds of marble, elaborate basins and fishponds. Because the town was often threatened by the flooding Rhône, there were drainage ditches six feet deep between each villa. To protect salt and wheat stored in villa storerooms from dampness, Vienne's architects partially buried between 50 and 60 empty olive jars upside down in the earth beneath the rooms. Thus infiltrating waters would trap air in each, providing a dry-air barrier beneath the storerooms...
...Russians were expected to try every tactic to bring the Czechoslovaks to their socialist senses. For one thing, they would no doubt remind the Czechoslovaks that 80% of their trade is with the Soviet Union, which could easily cut off the wheat and raw materials that the country depends upon. For another, they would probably dangle before Dubček a hard-currency loan of about $400 million that he needs for economic modernization. The Soviets might even revive demands that Russian troops be stationed on Czechoslovak soil, hoping that such a garrison could permanently discourage a Prague walkaway from...