Word: corning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Wilcox County, which borders on the better-known Lowndes County, which Stokely Carmichael wrote about in Black Power. There are about 18,000 people in the county-15,000 blacks and 3000 whites-but the whites still own and run everything. The economy is almost totally agricultural; cotton, soybeans, corn, greens, and cucumbers are grown. Many blacks are sharecroppers living on $300 to $400 a year. The average annual black family income in the county is $500. Some people don't know that they can get on welfare; or if they do know, they can't seem to get anywhere...
...their survival-one aspect of the myth that has not been exaggerated. During the first winter, cold, disease and famine cut their number in half-13 out of the 18 wives who came on the Mayflower died. More might have perished had not an early landing party stolen Indian corn from buried caches-a find they considered to be "God's providence." Only privation made the Pilgrims temporary teetotalers; only because of their "great thirste" was the New England water "as pleasante unto them as wine or bear had been in for-times." Soon enough they began to make...
...year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight-has appeared in the richest corn fields of the American breadbasket, and the damage has been serious. Yet the U.S. will still have the third best corn crop in its history...
FROM Ocoya, 90 miles out of Chicago, U.S. 66 slices its way southwestward toward St. Louis through seas of hybrid feed corn. Blackbirds wing over the blowing tassels, plucking caterpillars from among the leaves and blowing silk, oblivious to the round-the-clock rumble of the highway. In this season the land is still hot, the air humid; the prairie wind sears rather than cools, and storms roll in from the west in minutes. Along the four-lane divided highway, humming tires throw up white crushed rock from the shoulders to nick a windshield or chip paint from a fender...
...Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts out a fried-chicken dinner "with that come-back taste"; it also boasts a barbershop and two gift shops that sell 3-D tableaux of the Last Supper and diapers with "I'm a little tax deduction" printed on them. John Geske...