Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...
Columbia had its hopes up Saturday for its first win of the season. Three fumbles and three interceptions, however, tended to subdue any wild thoughts of victory over Cornell. Despite its bungles, Columbia trailed by only 10-0 at halftime, but then Cornell ripped off three touchdowns right after intermission and coasted to a 31-6 win. Cornell halfback Pete Larson scored three times, on runs of two and 25 yards and on a 34-yard pass from quarterback Bill Abel...
Survival of the Fittest. Financed by a grant from the U.S. Agriculture Department, Plant Pathologist Isaac Wahl began his search for resistant oats in Israel-on the theory that the varieties of wild oats growing there must have built up some sort of immunity. "In the process of evolution over millions of years," he explains, "the survival of the fittest applies to cereal grains...
...them through rugged environmental tests in hothouses and in the fields. The most promising 100 samples were sent to the U.S. Agriculture Department; along with 4,000 resistant selections from other countries they were subjected to 264 and other strains of rust. From the fierce competition, a strain of wild oats that Wahl had found near Israel's Mount Carmel emerged the winner...
...Troublesome Trait. Designated 6-105 by the Agriculture Department, the new wild oat, which has a high protein value, resists the rusts that destroy 6% of the U.S. oat crop every year. To eliminate its tendency to lose some of its kernels before harvesting, it is currently being bred with existing commercial varieties at Agriculture Department stations in Midwestern and Southern states. When that troublesome trait is eliminated and varieties bred from 6-105 finally go into large-scale production, they could save the U.S. farmer upwards of $26 million per year...