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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crop was raised this year in Kazakhstan," said Nikita, "but poor organization lost it. On Nov. 1, 4,000,000 acres planted to grain had not been harvested. The Kazakhstanis say that some of the grain was flattened by the first snow, and they harvested it afterward. But what sort of harvesting is that? You know how geese pluck grass, especially goslings. A gosling grabs a blade of grass, yanks it out and falls on his backside. That," said Khrushchev amid laughter and applause, "is about how they harvested the grain left under the snow in Kazakhstan...
...sort of ordeal that triggers the adrenalin of angry young men afflicted Britain's young (30) Playwright John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne. It became known that a television producer had rejected Osborne's very first TV effort, with a broad hint that it was amateurish. Abed with flu. Osborne grumped unsportingly: "Television is to the theater what etching is to oils." Then word leaked that still another producer had bounced the same script. Snarled Osborne: "What was a private negotiation has now become a public sport. I shall withdraw it.'' But he did not have...
...brilliant New York surgeon, Dr. Irving Cooper, she underwent a rare operation last January, at 54 has returned to relatively normal life and work. The TV show dramatized the moving case history that Maggie Bourke-White wrote for LIFE last spring, with some unfortunate descents to the sort of syrupy embarrassment that inevitably finds its way into TV scripts about personal struggles with sickness...
Joker & Braggart. In 1935 at the age of 26, Errol Flynn leaped spectacularly into the public eye in Captain Blood, and was well away on a film career that made him a sort of "rich man's Roy Rogers" whose color spectacles were almost as popular as the off-color spectacle of his private life. The lusty, naive young knockabout from New Guinea became the bored Mocambohemian. "The Baron," as his buddies called him, built the usual $125,000 mansion and kept a yacht, filled both of them with "roisterers, fun guys, rompers" and the sort of girls they...
Pillow Talk. The box-office champions of the 1958-59 season, Rock Hudson and Doris Day, are teamed in an attempt to present a sort of World Series of sex, with Comic Tony Randall stealing all the bases...