Grain sorghum, the bushy-headed youngster that in six short years has come from near-obscurity to become the nation's fourth largest grain crop, has developed some of the problems that go along with bigness.

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1961Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast and coach^[†]

Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games, she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, she won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s. During her career, she won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.

1961Enzo Francescoli, Uruguayan footballer^[†]

Enzo Francescoli Uriarte, nicknamed "El Príncipe", is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. He is regarded as one of the best playmakers of his generation and as one of Uruguay's and South America's greatest ever players. He represented his nation at two FIFA World Cups, in 1986 and 1990, also winning the Copa América in 1983, 1987 and 1995.

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1961Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the ketch Bluebelle.^[†]

A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast, and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries, ketch rigs were often employed on larger yachts and working watercraft, but ketches are also used as smaller working watercraft as short as 15 feet, or as small cruising boats, such as Bill Hanna's Tahiti ketches or L. Francis Herreshoff's Rozinante and H-28.

Historical Context for November 12, 1961

In 1961, the world population was approximately 3,064,869,675 people^[†]

Headlines from November 12, 1961

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HIGH HOPES THAT LED TO DISILLUSION; WRITERS ON THE LEFT: Episodes in American Literary Communism. By Daniel Aaron. 460 pp. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World $7.50. Our Literary Radicalism in This Century Reflected a Concern for Human Suffering Our Writers Held High Hopes That Led to Disillusion

PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. WOULD FIGHT TO KEEP FREEDOM; In a Veterans Day Talk, He Appeals for Patience in the Search for Peace HE CALLS FOR COURAGE Defense Secretary Asserts Nation Would Win Any War Over Its Rights PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. WOULD FIGHT

The Big Question

Sorghum Story: Obscurity to Surplus in Six Years; Grain Popular After Long U.S. History as 'Small Crop' ROLE OF SORGHUM GROWING RAPIDLY

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Historical Context for November 12, 1961