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Word: planters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grove; clothbound, $3.50; paperback, $1.75). The author admires cinema techniques, and his book would make an excellent art-house movie. But like his earlier work, The Voyeur (TIME, Oct. 13, 1958), it is also thoroughly irritating. A prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine's rages. Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Surface Without Depth | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Pile of Rocks. Soldiers and demonstrators scuffled over the flag. One flag planter got jabbed by a G.I. bayonet; furious, the rioters stoned the G.I.s. Screaming and singing Panama's national anthem, they ran down Fourth of July Avenue; many rioters turned back into Panama City to smash and loot windows of jewelry and department stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Fanned Flames | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Thus the invaders must either blackmail Duvalier into cooperating or try to bounce him from office. To put a squeeze on Duvalier, Castro has given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: In the Middle | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...most common topics of conversation on state visits to Washington-Communism and credit-will not have their usual urgency when Lemus comes to town. The planter-army oligarchy that runs El Salvador makes certain that no leftist ideologies nourish. Sound money policies and a balanced budget keep the currency stable at 2½ colons to the dollar. But Lemus will try to stir up investor interest, both governmental and private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: The Full Enchilada | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Brookston (pop. 1,100), in northwest Indiana, North started in field work at the age of seven, the year after his mother died. His father bolted a box to a harrow, and North, riding in the box. drove the team. His father followed, driving another team pulling a corn planter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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