Word: wheats
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...eleven grandchildren skiing in two weeks. (Nitze has two sons and two daughters; there is also one great-grandchild so far, but at age three he is not yet up to the intermediate slopes that Nitze favors.) On his 1,900-acre farm in Maryland, which produces corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle, pigs and sheep, he keeps 16 horses and rides on weekends. He owns a summer house on an island in Maine, where he played tennis almost every day last August. Serious tennis. Once, a much younger man whom Nitze had just trounced in singles asked him how he kept...
...laments Chief Elder Muboulle Osman, a tall, worried-looking man of about 50. "There are 72,000 people in this area, and we have no food, not even grazing for our animals. Without this," he gestures toward a long, green tarpaulin piled high with wheat flour, beans and grain, "we would starve...
Those clouds, though, could not dampen the 1987 harvest. Despite all the idle farmland, wheat production was up 1% from last year's sizable crop, to 2.1 billion bu., while the soybean crop also rose 1%, to 2 billion bu. Good weather resulted in especially strong yields in Iowa, which vaulted past Illinois to become the top producer of corn and soybeans...
...soup, roast-beef hash and, in more sophisticated moments, the Italian veal-shank dish called osso buco). Haller presents some macabre juxtapositions of historic events with personal reminiscences. To get through his difficult final hours in the White House, Richard Nixon requested a breakfast more substantial than his usual wheat germ and coffee. Haller rustled up corned-beef hash with a poached egg. Nixon ate it in his favorite Lincoln Sitting Room, then signed the resignation handed to him by Alexander Haig...
...goes according to plan, a team of Clemson researchers at the school's agricultural research station near Blackville, S.C., will sprinkle a murky white liquid teeming with billions of Pseudomonas fluorescens bacteria on winter wheat seeds during planting. It should be easy enough to tell whether the invisible microorganisms survive and spread: the Pseudomonas bacteria have been altered by genetic engineers to turn a brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound called X-Gal. Declares Benton Box, dean of Clemson's College of Forest and Recreation Resources: "The potential we now have for tracking a genetically altered...