Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic artist is essentially alienated?", thought it over and gave a perfect, two-syllable answer...
...what plainly just keeps The Unsinkable Molly Brown afloat is an unquenchable Tammy Grimes. Starting off, in potato-sack finery, half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...
Idaho (4): Recession in mines and timberlands hurts, but good potato harvest helps G.O.P. NIXON...
...state senate president when he was sworn in as interim Governor after Democrat Clinton Clauson died in office last December, faces a well-known opponent: trim, laconic Democrat Frank Coffin, 41. Representative from Maine's Second District. Hard working Congressman Coffin is still the betting choice, but Potato Farmer John Reed has cut heavily into an early Democratic lead...
...With more emphasis on basic research, the new products that lie just ahead promise marvels eclipsing even what the U.S. has accomplished since World War II. Within a year or two, electronic ovens may be available for every home. They will cook a steak in two minutes, a baked potato in four seconds, greaselessly so that the oven never needs cleaning. An ultrasonic breakthrough in the use of sound waves for cleaning promises dishwashing in minutes without water. Shoes and clothes may be whisked spotless ultrasonically as the wearer enters the house...